Marc Quinn remembers his visit to the Tutankhamun exhibition at the British Museum. He shares his delight in coming back to exhibit a work inspired by that experience and the surrounding ancient Greek sculpture. Curator Peter Higgs draws parallels with ideal female nudes created in 4th-century BC Greece.

Produced by ZCZ Films

Inspired by the Museum's collection

Statue of Aphrodite

Marble statue of a naked Aphrodite crouching at her bath.

Nereid Monument

Nereids (daughters of the sea-deities Nereus and Dorix) were popular figures in Greek literature.