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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
imageArtists have represented human bodies without clothes for a very long time.Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC BY

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Why are so many statues naked? – Artie, age 12, Astoria, New York

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