Talk:Veiled Vestal

UNDUE
The inclusion, in the lead no less, of a spicy titbit related to an unnamed critic's whimsical erotic speculation about the appearance in a film of a nearly 200 year old statue by an acclaimed sculptor, is pretty much the definition of WP:UNDUE and it's unbecoming of an encyclopedia that it featured on Main page. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 15:43, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Agree; and of course the sculpture post dates the book. The "unnamed critic's whimsical erotic speculation" (love that phrase) is probably baseless: I've seen the original at Chatsworth and I think it far more likely that the filmmakers saw it when they were looking for backdrops and context and then - how could they NOT include it? Cross Reference (talk) 14:10, 13 April 2021 (UTC)