Joachim Wtewael, Perseus and Andromeda, 1611, oil on canvas, Louvre, Paris
"Andromeda's feet are directed toward the observer, one of them poised beside a skull teething a thigh bone, the other lightly placed on a shell whose vibrant, seductive interior provides a startlingly direct route of entry into the figure, as if her concealed genitalia have been exposed in their displacement." -- from Joanna Woodall's article in Manifestations of Venus: Art and Sexuality
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