Some sculpture from the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Venus emerged, newly born, from the water, fully grown and without a stitch of clothing.

But she had her friends, the Giant Clam and the toothy dolphin(?)duo.

"The Birth of Venus" Marble sculpture by Swiss artist Heinrich Keller, 1799

The Angel of Purity, as modeled, at the behest of her parents, on a woman who died at 22 of diphtheria, in Philadelphia, in 1898. The Maria Mitchell Memorial, marble sculpture.

"Love and Friendship (The Sacrifice of the Arrows of Love on the Altar of Friendship)": 1776 marble sculpture by Jean Pierre Antoine Tassaert.

"Love and Friendship (The Sacrifice of the Arrows of Love on the Altar of Friendship)"

"Love and Friendship (The Sacrifice of the Arrows of Love on the Altar of Friendship)"