“‘That which is the immodesty of other women has been my virtue – my willingness that the world should gaze upon my figure unadorned,’ Audrey Munson, the favorite nude model of the Beaux Arts movement in the United States, once proclaimed. … Yet following those Gilded Age years as the ‘American Venus,’ she had a failed silent film career …, was caught in a murder scandal, attempted suicide by poison, and was ultimately committed to a mental institution.”