(the stage is dark)

(slide up: The Mona Lisa¹, projected onto a blank canvas.)

(Leveaux's voice can be heard from the darkness:)

(a dancer exits with the canvas and another dancer enters with another blank canvas onto which Botticelli's Birth of Venus² is projected.)

(and another dancer enters for a slide of The Venus de Milo³)

(another dancer for a slide of the Virgin Mary⁴)

(and another slide⁵)

(and another⁶)

(and another⁷)

(a trio of dancers enter for three slides all at once⁸)

(a new slide⁹)

(new slide¹⁰)

(new slide¹¹)

(new slide¹²)

(new slide¹³)

(new slide)¹⁴

(new slide)¹⁵

(pause, silence)

(from the darkness, another voice:)

(lights up on Mephistopheles)

¹ Mona Lisa

² Birth of Venus

³ Venus de Milo

⁴Martini's Virgin Mary Enthroned

⁵ Manet's Olympia

⁶ Memling's Virgin and Child

⁷Whistler's Venus Astarte

⁸Parmigianino's Madonna with the Long Neck, Riemenschneider's Mourning Virgin, Munch's Madonna

⁹Duchamp's LHOOQ

¹⁰Murillo's Virgin of the Immaculate Conception

¹¹somebody's Virgin and Child

¹²Joos van Cleve's Virgin with the Carnation

¹³ Cezanne's Modern Olympe

¹⁴Steer's Toilet of Venus

¹⁵Corregio's Assumption of the Virgin