Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now

After Michelangelo: Fig Leaf for Michelangelo's David, 1857 Photograph: V&A Images/Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Rembrandt van Rijn : Jupiter and Antiope, 1659, Dry point etching Photograph: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Luca Giordano: Venus, Mars, and the Forge of Vulcan c1660s Photograph: The National Gallery of Ireland

Unknown Artist: Woman and man with oysters, Album of Japanese watercolours Photograph: V&A Images/Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Pablo Picasso: Erotic Scene (known as La Douleur), 1900, Oil on canvas Photograph: 1998 The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2007

John AS Coutts, aka John Willie: SDM BNDG GAG (Sadomasochism Female, Bondage Gagged), 1938 Photograph: The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University, Bloomington/Bizarre Publishing Company

Francis Bacon: Untitled (Two Figures in the Grass), c1952, oil on canvas Photograph: Estate of Francis Bacon/DACS, London 2007

Andy Warhol: Blowjob , 1963, Black and white, silent, 41 minutes at 16 frames per second Photograph: The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

Jeff Koons: Ilona on Top (Rosa background) 1990. Oil inks on canvas Photograph: Private collection, courtesy Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

Nobuyoshi Araki: From Erotos, 1993, Gelatin silver print Photograph: Nobuyoshi Arak

Tracey Emin: Is Legal Sex Anal? 1998, Pink neon and dimmer switch Photograph: Stephen White/Tate, London 2007

Marlene Dumas: Stripper, 1999, Oil on canvas Photograph: Stephen White/Courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London

Thomas Ruff: nudes ama14, 2000, C-Print Photograph: Thomas Ruff/DACS, London 2007/Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris