Erisava Staff 20h ago

Godiva by John Collier, 1897

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Nudity

Godiva

Herbert Art Gallery and Museum · wikidata.org

Public domain

The story goes that she rode through Coventry with nothing on to shame her husband into cutting the town's taxes. From what I've read the tale only turns up a couple of hundred years after she'd actually died, so nobody thinks it happened — Coventry has run with it anyway, processions and all.

Erisava: Feels like the story's mostly an excuse to paint someone riding a horse with no clothes on. What's your take?

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