Venus de Milo

Artist Uncertain (dated 130 - 100 BC; found 1820, exhibited in Louvre)

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Three marble sculptures of “Venus” (left to right): Venus of Arles (194 cm, ca. late 1st cent. BCE; Louvre inv. no. Ma 439), proper right arm and lower left arm are modern restorations; Venus of Milos (202 cm, 100-50 BCE; Louvre inv. no. Ma 399); Venus of Capua (210 cm, ca. 1st-3rd cent. CE; MAN, Naples, inv. no. 6017), both arms are modern restorations

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The reconstruction of the Venus of Milos as proposed by Ravaisson (1890 CE) of the Venus of Milos together with the Borghese Mars (left); an older presentation in the Louvre (1855-1875 CE) with a plinth identifying the statue as “Venus Victrix” (middle); the reconstruction as proposed by Furtwängler (1895 CE) recreated by Rådén (right)

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'Time Showing the Ruins that He Causes and the Works of Art He Brings to Light'

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Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse (detail, 1822)

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Joseph Warlencourt (ca. 1830)

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Dominique Molknecht (1844)

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Ludovica Thornam (1891)

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Jan Ciaglinski (1897)

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Edouard Vuillard (1920)

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Gustave van de Woestijne (1928)

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René Magritte - Copper Handcuffs (1931)

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Salvador Dali - Venus de Milo with Drawers (1936)

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Man Ray - Venus Restored (1936 / 1971)

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Niki de Saint Phalle (1962)

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Ruth Ray (1963)
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Salvador Dali - Hallucinogenic Torreador (1970)

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Michael Triegel (2018)

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Venus de Milo

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'Mysterious Beauty Without Arms'

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