- The Venus de Milo is an ancient Greek statue of the goddess Aphrodite, famous both for her missing arms and as a symbol of female beauty.
- The Venus de Milo is a masterpiece and is one of the most precise and compositionally beautiful statues of the Hellenistic period.
- Let’s take a closer look at some of the most interesting facts about the Venus de Milo sculpture, an iconic ancient Greek work of art.
- However, the Vénus de Milo was initially presented with a plinth that has often been ignored in scholarly discussions and has since disappeared.
- And as The Guardian's Jonathan Jones wrote in 2015, "The Venus de Milo is an accidental surrealist masterpiece.
- 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.
- The Venus de Milo was discovered in 1820 on the island of Melos ( Milos in modern Greek ) in the south-western Cyclades.
- 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.
- 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…
- Part 1. Aphrodite of Melos (Venus de Milo) sculpture from [Hage?]andros of Antioch, son of Menides, 130 - 100 BC, marble 2.04 m. Louvre Paris, France.