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Too bad the art isn't very much on display in this article. A great book on the topic is 'Eros in Pompeii', which depicts the Erotic Art collection of the Napl
by car 4y ago
Too bad the art isn't very much on display in this article.
A great book on the topic is 'Eros in Pompeii', which depicts the Erotic Art collection of the Naples Museum [0]. In it is a picture of a statue named 'stupidus', after a character played in mimes. It totally cracked me up, since it immediately reminded me of the aptly named 'shirt cocker', a character encountered at clothing optional Burning Man.
The linked Wikipedia article [1] and especially masters thesis have really good information as well [2].
[0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eros-Pompeii-Erotic-Collection-Museum/dp/1556706200 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eros-Pompeii-Erotic-Collection-Muse...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art_in_Pompeii_and_Herculaneum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art_in_Pompeii_and_Herc...
[2] https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/41621/Lundgren-Master.pdf https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/41621/Lundgren...
- hnbad 4y agoCan you elaborate on Stupidus for those of us who have neither read the book nor been to Burning Man? Googling "stupidus" provided even less insight than googling "shirt cocker" (even with any attempt of context). There's a dimly lit photograph of a stupidus statue as figure 11 in the PDF but that doesn't really explain anything either. Is it a character with a big penis and only wearing an upper body garment?
- car 4y agoIf you google again but as one word, you should get more hits. And yes, you're correct about the statue.