“Guided groups are brought before her to revere the extraordinary achievements of the master artist, or to be teased by the play of gazes in the image – that Venus sees us seeing her – and, most of all, to be educated, enlightened and inspired by a picture of a woman with no clothes on.”

“Guided groups are brought before her to revere the extraordinary achievements of the master artist, or to be teased by the play of gazes in the image – that Venus sees us seeing her – and, most of all, to be educated, enlightened and inspired by a picture of a woman with no clothes on.”

— Catherine McCormack