"Hellenistic panic at the museum" : For the ancient Greeks, portraits of actual people were clothed (representations of gods and goddesses were much less clothed). The statues were originally painted to make them more life-like.
Copy of an original ... c. 100 BC, Delos, National Archaeological Museum of Athens, Greece
Aphrodite was a sort of movie celebrity, a living myth among the greek goddesses.
Art is quick route to perfection and Platonic truth.
Donald Kuspit
Next God.