Virgnia State Flag Detail

As the armor-clad Virtus depicted on this 1908 flag demonstrates, the Greek and Roman traditions of heroic nudity were not always used to rationalize partial-nudity in representations of this representative of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Most recently, in 2010, former Virginia Attorney General, Kenneth Thomas Cuccinelli II, proposed a more modest alternative to the official, semi-nude figure of Virtus and reopened a debate over the sanitizing influence of classical dress.