In Gérôme’s version, sensing the case isn’t going well, her defender, Hypereides, tears off all Phryne’s clothes to expose her beautiful breasts, leaving her creamily naked and shielding her face in burning shame, reasoning that no jury will convict such an exquisite creature. ![]() It shows the ancient Greek courtesan Phryne, who was being tried for impiety. C onsider Jean-Léon Gérôme’s Phryne Before the Areopagus, painted in 1861.
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