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Why are so many statues naked? An art historian explains this tradition’s ancient roots

  • Written by Anna Swartwood House, Associate Professor of Art History, University of South Carolina
Why are so many statues naked? An art historian explains this tradition’s ancient rootsArtists have represented human bodies without clothes for a very long time.Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC BY

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