The fresco depicts the daughters of Zeus, who doubled as Aphrodite's handmaidens. The three slender, nude bodies are set against a background of lush vegetation, and their arms are sensually interlocked (Owen 2)
743 (Sculpture). The goddess's shadowed eyes, set deep in her softly modeled face, seem to carve out a sense of interiority, much as Degas's late bathers bend over an inviolate space defined by the contortions of their self-tending bodies (Smee 4f