David Ekserdjian is Professor of History of Art and Film at the University of Leicester

Andrea Odoni (1527), Lorenzo Lotto. Royal Collection Trust.
The Conversion of Mary Magdalene (c. 1661–62), Guido Cagnacci. Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena
Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c. 1490/95), Sandro Botticelli.
Portrait of a Young Man, (1565–70), Alessandro Allori,
The new Cabinet d’Arts Graphiques of the Musée Condé at Chantilly
Allegory of the Immaculate Conception (detail; 1566), Carlo Portelli.