Gardens of Nudes - Part One
festoons of grapevines. This is one of the earliest descriptions which we have of Greek sculpture being displayed in a garden.
During the Hellenistic period, sculpture became increasingly secular in content. Aphrodite was the main subject for female nudes, but nude statues of nymphs and dancing girls were also popular. I don't really know what the gardens of Hellenistic palaces looked like, and it is a mistake to assume that they looked like the gardens of Pompeii, those gardens seem to be in a style which developed in southern Italy. We know a lot about the gardens of southern Italy because of the archeological digs at Pompeii and Herculaneum and we also have descriptions of ancient Roman gardens from writers like Pliny the Younger, so we know more about how sculptures were displayed in Roman gardens.
I will be writing about Roman gardens in my next article.
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