Venus de Milo carved
c. 130 BCE · Work
An Aphrodite of Melos, carved in two blocks of Parian marble, perhaps by Alexandros of Antioch on the Maeander — then lost for nearly two millennia until a farmer dug her out of a field in 1820. The missing arms became her signature: shipped to the Louvre and promoted by France as the supreme classical statue, she is the ancient world's most famous body.
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