The most celebrated of Houdon's mythological works is his supple, elegant statue of Diana, first shown in 1777, although not at the Salon possibly to avoid questions of propriety because of the artist's frank treatment of the life-size undraped figure.
In perfect summer sunshine, his casket was undraped, blessed and lowered into the soil from which he sprang.
But to capture a niche audience, Mr. Dean runs what may be the only strip joint on the Island to separate undraped, undulating physiques by ethnic group and sex.
Just as the plane was undraped, a sign flashed on above it saying, "Owl Express Go to Sleep in New York Wake up in Boston".
At the Central Park Conservancy's Halloween ball on Oct. 27, the party tent's ceiling went undraped, which Frank Alexander, who created the evening's décor, estimated was a savings of roughly $25,000.
If, on the other hand, you have a taste for French academic painting, at Richard Green there is a big, sexy picture by William Adolphe Bouguereau of a beautiful, mostly undraped woman getting dressed after a swim in a nearby stream.
Out of sight, but visible in photographs posted on the Web site, are rooms with elaborate ceiling murals of smiling putti, angels, undraped women and carefree people in 18th-century dress.
Bomber crews painted Jane on Lancaster fuselages, submarines went to war with weeks of her advance comic panels stored away, and tank crews plastered Jane's undraped likeness on their turrets.
We look forward to the abstract beauty of Miss Gwendolyn Godiva at Tuxedo with her favorite jumper; to the stimulating bravado of Mrs. Henry Cotswold, Jr. lunching undraped, with friends at the Ritz.
Similarly, his transparent glass boxes recall the Dutch habit of leaving living rooms undraped -- not, as in a Mies glass house, so that the inhabitants can look out but so that passers-by may look in.
The Casanova Club, a den of shady characters in the film, is on Dorotheergasse (6-8), and judging by the photos of bosomy, undraped ecdysiasts out front, the show may be the same as in Greene's day.
