Venus de Milo - Springfield, MA
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N 42° 06.218 W 072° 35.102
18T E 699683 N 4664104
This sculpture is located in the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum in Springfield, MA.
Waymark Code: WMPXV6
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 11/06/2015
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This sculpture is a replica of the famous Venus de Milo. Wikipedia (
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"Aphrodite of Milos (..., better known as the Venus de Milo, is an ancient Greek statue and one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture. Created sometime between 130 and 100 BCE, it is believed to depict Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty (Venus to the Romans). It is a marble sculpture, slightly larger than life size at 203 cm (6 ft 8 in) high. The arms and original plinth were lost following its discovery. From an inscription that was on its plinth, it is thought to be the work of Alexandros of Antioch; earlier, it was mistakenly attributed to the master sculptor Praxiteles. It is currently on permanent display at the Louvre Museum in Paris. The statue is named after the Greek island of Milos, where it was discovered."
Wikipedia (
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"Venus (/'vi?n?s/, Classical Latin: /'w?n?s/) is the Roman goddess whose functions encompassed love, beauty, fertility, prosperity and desire. In Roman mythology, she was the mother of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy. Julius Caesar claimed her as his ancestor. Venus was central to many religious festivals, and was revered in Roman religion under numerous cult titles.
The Romans adapted the myths and iconography of her Greek counterpart Aphrodite for Roman art and Latin literature. In the later classical tradition of the West, Venus becomes one of the most widely referenced deities of Greco-Roman mythology as the embodiment of love ."