The Greek Slave (sculpture)
Date: 1800 - 1850 [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]
Region: North America [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|{location3}]]
Subject: Nudity [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]
Medium: Sculpture [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]
Artist: Hiram Powers
Confronting Bodies: clergymen
Dates of Action: 1848
Location: USA
Description of Artwork: Sculpture of female nude.
The Incident: Americans were scandalized by the fact that the slave was nude.
Results of Incident: Powers claimed that the slave she was a pure Christian girl, being sold on the block somewhere like Constantinople to the heathen Turks, but protected from evil eyes by her chastity and spiritual virtues. He got the statue approved by a body of clergymen, and it was singled out for honors at the Great Crystal Palace Exhibition in London in 1851, took in $25,000 in admissions when exhibited in New York, and sold in half-a-dozen full-sized replicas.
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