Resumen de Nudity á la grecque in 1799
The controversy concerning the nudity of the male protagonists in David’s Intervention of the Sabines (1799) can be understood only by interrogating the wider gender politics of nudity á la grecque in Directory France. At stake in the scandal of nudity was not only classicism but the Republic. By the late 1790s, neither could be disengaged from anxieties about fashion, women’s sexuality, and women’s viewing.
