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Eve Tempted (detail)
marble
modeled 1839-1842, carved 1873-1877
Hiram Powers
American
"the nude statue should be an unveiled soul." - Hiram Powers
In 1842 Hiram Powers had produced his first idealized female nude, Eve Tempted. The choice of subject permitted nudity without offending Victorian morality. The purity of the marble, from Seravezza—a quarry about eighteen miles from Carrara, Italy—lent itself to spiritual idealism, while its quasi-flesh tone (as the sculptor saw it) together with Powers's careful simulation of skin texture conjured a physical reality.
Full EXIF Info | |
Date/Time | 25-Nov-2006 13:34:52 |
Make | Nikon |
Model | NIKON D2X |
Flash Used | No |
Focal Length | 28 mm |
Exposure Time | 1/40 sec |
Aperture | f/2.2 |
ISO Equivalent | 200 |
Exposure Bias | -0.67 |
White Balance | |
Metering Mode | matrix (5) |
JPEG Quality | |
Exposure Program | aperture priority (3) |
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