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Nudity in Greek & Roman Art
Dr Caroline Vout, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge
Manet’s Olympia (130.5 x 190 cm) Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Roman version of the Aphrodite of Knidos, the original of which was made c. 350 BCE by Praxiteles. Later said to have been modelled on his mistress, Phryne
The Townley Discobolos (BM) The Laocoon group, Vatican Museums
Arringatore or orator, c. 150 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Florence
Septimius Severus, c. 193‐200 CE (BM)
Greek nudity
Boxing contest on a Panathenaic amphora, c. 480‐460 BCEFound at Nola (BM)
Interior of red‐figure cup, showing a sexual encounter, The Getty Villa, Malibu
L. Cast of the Peplos kore,Cambridge
R. Phrasikleia, National Museum Athens
Roman version of Polykleitos’Doryphoros
Section of the Parthenon Frieze (BM)
Illisos steleNational Museum, Athens
The tomb sculpture of Dexileos, the Kerameikos Archaeological Museum (Athens), 394/3 BCE
Some examples of Hellenistic sculpture, from the Capitoline, Munich and the BM
Roman nudity
Tivoli General Delos pseudo‐athlete
Claudius and BritanniaPanel from the Sebasteion, Aphrodisias, Turkey
Bronze strigil, from Palestrina, c. 300 BCE (BM)
Actaeon and his hounds, C2 CE (BM) Model of Athena Parthenos
The Projecta Casket, c. 300 CE (BM)
Rubens, Christ Triumphant over Death, Metropolitan Museum, NYImage removed due to copyright
Rubens, The Cruxified Christ, Art Museum, AntwerpImage removed due copyright
