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The Venus de Milo or Aphrodite of Melos [b] is an ancient Greek marble sculpture that was created during the Hellenistic period. Its exact dating is uncertain, but the modern consensus places it in the 2nd century BC, perhaps between 160 and 110 BC.
Hellenistic art is the art of the Hellenistic period generally taken to begin with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and end with the conquest of the Greek world by the Romans, a process well underway by 146 BC, when the Greek mainland was taken, and essentially ending in 30 BC with the conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt following the Battle of Actium.
Olivier Voutier (born 30 May 1796 in Thouars, France; died 18 April 1877 in Hyères, France) was a French naval officer who discovered the statue of the Venus de Milo in 1820, and fought in the Greek War of Independence.
Under the Cherry Moon is a 1986 romantic musical comedy-drama film starring Prince and marking his directorial debut.The follow-up to his 1984 film debut Purple Rain, it also stars former The Time member Jerome Benton, Steven Berkoff, Kristin Scott Thomas (in her feature film debut), and Francesca Annis.
The Venus de Milo was added to the Louvre's collection during the reign of Louis XVIII. For most of the 19th century, from Napoleon's time to the Second Empire, the Louvre and other national museums were managed under the monarch's civil list and thus depended much on the ruler's personal involvement.
Venus Physica, Venus as a universal, natural creative force that informs the physical world. She is addressed as "Alma Venus" ("Mother Venus") by Lucretius in the introductory lines of his vivid, poetic exposition of Epicurean physics and philosophy, De Rerum Natura. She seems to have been a favourite of Lucretius' patron, Memmius. [40]
Some of the greatest masterpieces of ancient Greek sculpture were carved from Parian marble, including the Medici Venus, the Venus de Milo, and the Winged Victory of Samothrace. Archeological fieldwork on Paros has identified extensive ancient marble open-pit quarries , with the most significant sites being found at Chorodaki, Marathi, and ...
His first volume, La Vénus de Milo, attracted to him a number of friends many of whom were passionately devoted to classical literature. [1] However, as a writer he is most famous for his three collections of poetry: Poèmes antiques (1852), Poèmes barbares (1862), Poèmes tragiques (1884). He is also known for his translations of Ancient ...