How is the female figure in Eugène Delacroix's Odalisque reduced to being an "object of desire" in this representation?

What will be an ideal response?

Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. She is perceived as a nude rather than naked and therefore not seen as an actual person.
2. Her direct and unemotional gaze toward the viewer sets up the act of viewing as a detached objectified experience.
3. Her figure extended across red fabric and filling the squared bed frame suggests an object displayed in a velvet-lined box.

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The portrait bust of Akhenaton's wife, entitled Queen Nefertiti, has come to symbolize

a. the celebrity status of a pharaohs wife b. beauty standards for contemporary movie stars c. the idea that feminine beauty transcends time d. all of the above e. none of the above

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