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Venus de Milo drawn by Auguste Debay. The inscribed plinth, if originally part of the Venus, identifies the sculptor as [---]andros of Antioch on the Maeander and supports a date for the work in the Hellenistic period. The Venus de Milo is probably a sculpture of the goddess Aphrodite, but its fragmentary state makes secure identification ...
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.
The first room hosts large pottery vessels since the late Bronze Age to the Greek archaic period, a modern copy of the statue of Venus de Milo and a collection of obsidian tools from Neolithic to early Bronze Age.
Alexandros is best known today for the Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Milos) at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. The attribution is based on an inscription from a now-missing plinth that was a part of the statue but was removed and "lost" due to museum politics and national pride at the Louvre in the 1820s.
Could there be a revival underway at the iconic Venus de Milo site? You may have noticed a bit more action at the sprawling Route 6 property recently.
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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 ...
The Venus de Milo (now in the Louvre), the Poseidon of Melos (now in the NAMA) and the Asclepius of Milos (now in the British Museum) were all found on the island, [2] as was an archaic Apollo now in Athens. Milos is a popular tourist destination during the summer.