Get ready to meet marble hunks, oil-painted Adonises, and other MAG men and women who make you wish you were born four centuries ago. On this DeTOUR℠, we’ll expose you to some of the art world’s best bachelors, spinsters, and finest eye candy, pictured above. We’ll also give you the scoop on romantic quarrels that kept hearts apart and plunge deep into the secret stories of star-crossed lovers from antiquity to modernity.

shown: Self-Portrait as a Young Man, (detail) by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini