Beauty Revealed is an 1828 watercolour on ivory by American artist Sarah Goodridge, a portrait miniature only 2.6 by 3.1 inches in size. Identified as a self-portrait, it shows a pair of bared breasts framed by white cloth, with the composition cropped from collarbone to just below the breasts so that the sitter is anonymous. Goodridge, then forty, painted them as youthful and individualised. She gave the portrait to the statesman Daniel Webster, a frequent subject of hers and possibly a lover, after his wife died. His family kept it until it was sold at Christie's in 1981, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired it in 2006. Critics have read it both as erotica and as an assertion of the artist's confident sexuality.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.