APHRODITE OF MELOS - VENUS DE MILO STATUE SCULPTURE

Offered here is a stylish and classic European artist reproduction statue of Aphrodite of Melos also known as Venus de Milo.  It was patterned after the Aphrodite statue in the Louvre Museum in Paris circa 200 B.C.

Venus De Milo - This famous sculpture of Aphrodite is viewed as a symbol of eternal beauty.  It is known as the Venus De Milo or Aphrodite of Melos because of the Greek island it was found on in 1820.  Aphrodite, later referred to as Venus by the Romans, was the goddess of love and beauty who was born from the silver foam (aphros) of the sea.

• It measures just over 19" high and is very substantial and heavy and of excellent quality. 
• It is made of quality collectible resin and is handpainted to resemble stone

Her graceful body symbolizes an ideal of beauty that many long for but none attain. The French named her the Venus of Milo. In 1820 a peasant named Yorgos found her broken body in an underground cavern on the Aegean island of Melos. Later she was taken out of Greece under unclear circumstances to be taken to Paris where she was to be admired by the millions of visitors to that country's great museum-the Louvre! Aphrodite was the Goddess of Love, identified in Rome with Venus. Although Homer describes Aphrodite as the daughter of Zeus and Dion, the more popular view was that she was conceived in the foam of the ocean from the seed of Uranus. Dropped there when he was castrated, her name meaning "foam-born". Aphrodite was married to Hephaestus, but she loved Ares and she was known for her many love affairs, notably with Adonis and Anchises.

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