From the early Renaissance (Botticelli, Titian) to the interwar period (Picasso's The Lovers, Thomas Hart Benton's study of a black couple), love has fascinated painters of every era and school. These paintings include works by 86 artists inspired by every source "from ancient myth to modern romance." Some seem connected more with sex than with love (there are quite a few nudes and semi-nudes), and others (like Jan van Eyck's "Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife," John Singer Sargent's "Paul Helleu Sketching With His Wife," and Lorenzo Lotto's "Portrait of a Married Couple," don't make their subjects look particularly romantic as most of us today understand that term. But there are also a goodly share, primarily from the 19th and early 20th centuries, that do portray situations of a lovesome nature, often richly and lushly--John Collier's "In the Venusberg" from Tannhauser, assorted canvases by John William Waterhouse and Holman Hunt, Philip Hermogenes Calderon's "Broken Vows." The collection would have been improved by an alphabetical index of titles, but the reproductions, though small, are clear and well done. (Caveat: buyers who also own Dover's 120 Great Victorian Fantasy Paintings CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art) will notice a few duplications of the pictures assembled there.)