I found the picture of this painting at Consciousness is a Congenital Hallucination (via Suddenly), but wasn't old with the news depicted. She was a famously bonny paramour in ancient Greece...Her actual study was Mnesarete (Ancient Greek ÎνηÏαÏεÏή (commemorating virtue)), but owing to her chromatic coloring she was titled Phryne (toad), a study presented to another courtesans...When accused of profaning the Eleusinian mysteries, she was defended by the speaker Hypereides, digit of her...
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