Venus de Milo
Found in 1820, it became the Louvre's emblem of ancient female beauty
- Author
- Alexandros of Antioch
- Style
- Hellenistic art — Greek form after Alexander: passion, motion and theatrical scale from the Nile to the Indus
- Century
- 2nd century BC
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