more disturbing art history
"Pliny [the first century Roman writer] tells us that a stain on the back of the figure was 'an indication of lust' left by a man who had hidden himself in the shrine during the nighttime in order to embrace the statue."
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dang son, that must have been some potent Roman splooge to be staining a fucking marble statue.
unless they referring to the orginal Greek bronze statue, of which this is a Roman copy, in which case, the freakiness remains.
i'm disappointed that the book includes this picture, and not one of the stain.
studying CAN be fun!