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The figures are sometimes posited as courtesans posing as their classical precedents, such as Flora, a conflation of the goddess of flowers and a rich Roman courtesan who endowed games for the citizens of Rome, or as Danae, a mythological woman who was impregnated by Zeus in a shower of gold and whose actions were sometimes interpreted in the Renaissance as those of a mercenary prostitute...
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Alternately, these images have often been understood by current art historians as figures with a higher, Neo-Platonic meaning. Because many of the artists who painted these pictures had social or political connections with Neo-Platonic philosopher-scholars, these nude women are interpreted as representing earthly beauty, who when gazed upon can lead the viewer to the contemplation of the divine...
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