- The name Venus de Milo comes from Venus, the Roman name for Aphrodite, and Milos, the Greek island where the statue was discovered in 1820.
- Historic Significance Of Venus de Milo. A young farmer named Yorgos Kentrotas discovered this statue on the Greek island of Melos (Milos) on 8 April 1820.
- Venus de Milo. Aphrodite, the ancient goddess of love has always been the ultimate model for female beauty and no statue deserves this description more...
- The Venus de Milo is one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture. Initially it was attributed to the sculptor Praxiteles, but based on an inscription that...
- Created sometime between 150 and 125 BC, the Venus de Milo is universally recognized as one of the greatest works of art ever created.
- Venus de Milo and the Intersection of Beauty and Politics.
- Venus de Milo is one of the most known pieces of art in display at the Louver museum. It was discovered in the Milo Island in Greek in 1820.
- This is exactly how Venus de Milo was found. French sailor Olivier Voutier was stopping over on the island of Melos, in the Aegean Sea.
- You may have seen the statue or allusions to it in movies and television shows because of the infamous Venus de Milo comedic gag about how she lost her arms…
- In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox’s Phil Edwards explores the secret history of the Venus de Milo, the famous armless statue from Greece.