...me hither to see." CHAPTEE XIV. CLEOPATEA. new statue ! " said Kenyon, who had positively forgotten it in the thought of Hilda ; " here it is, under this...An old Greek sculptor, no doubt, found his models iu the open sunshine, and among pure and princely maidens, and thus the nude statues of antiquity are...

...human being in existence. An artist, therefore, cannot sculpture nudity with a pure heart, if only he is compelled to steal guilty glimpses at hired...inevitably loses its chastity under such circumstances.' CHAPTER THREE THE FATAL CHARM OF ITALY WHAT THEN is this fatal spell of Italy? Sometimes it seems almost...

...and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing. . . . Nowadays people are as good as born in their clothes,...inevitably loses its chastity under such circumstances." (VI, 149) This speech does not seem so much prudery as a call for honesty. Miriam recognizes that nothing...

...concerning the voyeurism of art that is picked up as well in Miriam's statement that "an artist . . . cannot sculpture nudity with a pure heart, if only...compelled to steal guilty glimpses at hired models" [iv: 11l)),to Miriam's more directly flirtatious, seductive, request to see his ears, or, rather, his...

...call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing. I am wary even more than I am ashamed of seeing such things....heart, if only because he is compelled to steal guilty glances at hired models. of the artist and the unclothed body of the artist's model. It is in this...

...commentary on nudity in sculpture. "Nowa-days people are as good as born in their clothes," she says, "and there is practically not a nude human being in...inevitably loses its chastity under such circumstances" (4: 123). A variation on the erotic-aesthetic concern for the sculptor's "hot" touch, this anxiety...