Greek Museum Reproductions

Her graceful body symbolizes an ideal of beauty that many long for. The French named her the Venus of Milo. In 1820 a peasant 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 to that country's great museum-The Louvre. Aphrodite was the Goddess of Love, identified in Rome with Venus.

Material: Casting Stone

Finish: Antique Stone

Greek: 200 BC, Louvre Museum, Paris

Size: 12"H, On Marble Base