L'archange Gabriel, 1431 © Fra Angelico

Music Making Angel, 1480 © Melozzo de Forli

Frame drum player, 1472 © Melozzo de Forli

La Sphère des couleurs, 1810 © Runge Philipp Otto

Il Cuore dei Ponti per i Sambonet © Gio Ponti, Roberto Sambonet

Il Cuore dei Ponti per i Sambonet © Gio Ponti, Roberto Sambonet

L'Ange Volant © Gio Ponti

Il Cuore dei Ponti per i Sambonet © Gio Ponti, Roberto Sambonet

The black hole simulation published in 1979 © Jean-Pierre Luminet/CNRS Photothèque

Reconstruction of the sky on 20 January 1894 from 6 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. © Hideyuki Ishibashi, Stjernhimmeln, 2019

Léonard de Vinci, Déluge, around 1517-1518, pierre noire © Windsor Castle, The Royal Collection

Sun setting over a Lake, 1840 © Joseph Mallord William Turner

Hybrid eclipse © Rights reserved

Eclipse © Rights reserved

Hybrid Eclipse, 2013 © Désiré Minkoh

First image of the shadow of a black hole, the supermassive black hole at the centre of galaxy M87 © The EHT collaboration

Teoremi sull'arte © Bruno Munari

The Eclipsa, 1962 © Michelangelo Antonioni

Le Petit Soldat  © Jean-Luc Godard

Black circle for ‘From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism - a new realism in painting’, 1916  © Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

Giuseppe Penone, ‘Racchiudere i millenni negli anni’ (Covering the millennia with years), 2010  © Adagp, Paris Crédit photographique - © Cecilia Laulanne - Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI /Dist. RMN-GP

Propagation, 1994-96  © Giuseppe Penone

Un anno in piu dell'albero  © Giuseppe Penone

The architecture of trees, Nous les Arbres exhibition at the Fondation Cartier, Paris, 2019  © Cesare Leonardi et Franca Stagi

La psychanaluse du feu  © Gaston Bachelard

Tremenheere Sky © James Turrel