Venus de milo

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The Venus of Milo is a marble statue of the goddess Aphrodite, found without her arms on the Greek island of Milos in April 1820. It is an original work from the Hellenistic period, created around 150-130 BC. Its exhibition at the Louvre Museum in 1821 caused a sensation: it was the first statue from Greece in the collections, and the first to be shown incomplete. Its fame is due to the great beauty of its half-naked body, but also to the controversies raised by its identity and the position of its arms. Among the many proposals for restoring her attitude, archaeologists favor two: the one in which Aphrodite is holding the apple of the judgment of Paris and the one in which she is looking into the shield of Ares.