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, Septimius Severus, Archaeological Museum, Florence c. 193‐200 CE (BM) Greek nudity Boxing contest on a Panathenaic amphora, c. 480‐460 BCE Found at Nola (BM) Interior of red‐figure cup, showing a sexual encounter, The Getty Villa, Malibu
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