Illustration
So-called “Venus de Milo” (Aphrodite from Melos). Parian marble, ca. 130-100 BC? Found in Melos in 1820.
On display at the Louvre, Paris.
Gift of the Marquis de Rivière to Louis XVIII of France, 1821
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