The base disappeared from the Louvre during the initial reconstruction process and was never seen by the public.īy the 1950s, Alexandros had been widely accepted as the Venus's sculptor the statue is now believed to date from roughly 80 bce. Although this piece fit perfectly with the pedestal of the Venus de Milo, the director of the Louvre and other scholars argued that it could not possibly be part of the statue. Alexandros, according to the inscription, came from the city of Antioch, which had not been founded until 270 bce, well after the end of the Classical period. The most damning evidence that the Venus de Milo was not of the Classical period was a detached segment of the base that attributed the statue to a sculptor named Alexandros. National pride caused many French scholars to argue-against all evidence-that the statue dated from the Classical era, which was considered the apex of Greek art, while others insisted that the statue had been carved much later. The Venus de Milo's 1821 arrival in Paris sparked a scholarly controversy that raged for almost a century. 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 and purchased for the French government. The Venus de Milo is perhaps one of the best-known works of art in the world in popular culture, frequent reference is made both to her beauty and-often humorously-to her armlessness. 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. (2017). Aphrodite, known as the “Venus de Milo” | Louvre Museum | Paris. They were found not guilty by the Greek court. In February 2010, the German magazine Focus featured a doctored image of this Venus giving Europe the middle finger, which resulted in a defamation lawsuit against the journalists and the publication. The statue was formerly part of the seal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), one of the oldest associations of plastic surgeons in the world. The statue has greatly influenced masters of modern art one prime example is Salvador Dali’s Venus de Milo with Drawers. The marble may have been embellished with (now faded) polychromy. The goddess originally wore metal jewelry - bracelet, earrings, and headband - of which only the fixation holes remain. Essentially two blocks of marble, it is comprised of several parts which were sculpted separately (bust, legs, left arm and foot) then fixed with vertical pegs, a technique which was fairly common in the Greek world (especially in the Cyclades, where this work was produced around 100 BC). The Marquis de Rivière presented it to Louis XVIII, who donated it to the Louvre the following year. The Venus de Milo was discovered in 1820 on the island of Melos (Milos in modern Greek) in the south-western Cyclades. Is it Aphrodite, who was often portrayed half-naked, or the sea goddess Amphitrite, who was venerated on Melos? The statue reflects sculptural research during the late Hellenistic Period: classical in essence, with innovatory features such as the spiral composition, the positioning in space, and the fall of the drapery over the hips.
This graceful statue of a goddess has intrigued and fascinated since its discovery on the island of Melos in 1820.
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