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Artist:
Greek
Title: The Venus de Milo
Date: 130-120 B.C.
Medium: marble
Dimensions: 202 cm (80 inches) high
Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris
Image size: 1200 x 1805 pixels, 174 Kbytes
Image source: PBase |
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"Venus de Milo" is the French name for Aphrodite of Melos, the Greek island on which the statue was uncovered.
This magnificent statue was discovered in 1820, along with a hand (now lost) holding an apple, a symbol of Aphrodite dating from the story of the Judgment of Paris.
Click here for many more PBase photographs (of varying quality) of this sculpture.
The full story of the statue and its history is told in the 2003 book Disarmed: The Story of the Venus de Milo.
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