Michelangelo's "The David." Bottecelli's "Birth of Venus." The ever-so popular Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam."
All priceless masterpieces featured in world-renowned museums today.
And all pieces featuring the human body.
Five hundred years have passed since Renaissance artists took their brushes to canvas and sculpted figures from stone and bronze. And in that time, art forms have changed a bit.
Sure, we've still got paintings and statues and the like, and are still interested in seeing those same Renaissance masterpieces. If that weren't true, a lot of museums would be out of business.
But new art forms have also emerged, like the body painting and burlesque shows featured in this week's SPM cover story, "Different Strokes."
These art forms celebrate the human figure in ways that may not have been around in Michelangelo's time, but the artists behind them are just as deserving of praise.
Not that either of these art forms are brand new, although they have been showing up in Phoenix galleries quite a bit lately.
Burlesque shows were popular beginning in the 1930s, featuring women teasing audience members with sensual dances and barely-there costumes.
Different forms of body painting have been around for centuries - just think of henna painting or tattoos. But Paper Heart gallery in Phoenix has been showcasing one artist who paints portraits, designs and pictures on nude models, using their curves as part of the art.
It would be easy to write off these artistic efforts as thinly disguised excuses to showcase sexual material. After all, burlesque can look an awful lot like stripping, and those models being painted are naked!
(Well, they're not really naked - there's so much paint on those models, it's more like they're wearing a thin, form-fitting shirt, really.)
But these are actually carefully crafted exhibitions of a form we're all familiar with - the human body.
And though some people are still uncomfortable with the idea, let alone the image, of nudity in publications, the fact of the matter is that it's only a minor factor in many seriously talented art forms.
Even for those who are reluctant to acknowledge any type of art other than traditional paintings and sculptures, it's obvious that it takes real talent to do what Mark Greenawalt can do. Can you imagine painting someone non-stop for hours on end, and it still resulting in something beautiful?
Neither can we.
But what about burlesque dancers, whose moves we didn't think were physically possible? They too have a raw talent that, regardless of one's idea of what art is, not many people can even learn.
So you thought Shakira could move? Check out these dancers, and you'll see there's even more.
