* 1820 – The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.

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Select sculptures such as Winged Victory of Samothrace and the Venus de Milo were sent to the Château de Valençay.

Initially, the collection focused on marble sculptures, such as the Venus de Milo.

The Louvre holds masterpieces from the Hellenistic era, including The Winged Victory of Samothrace ( 190 BC ) and the Venus de Milo, symbolic of classical art.

Pickford underestimated the value of adding sound to movies, claiming that " adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo ".

Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece were dedicated to Southampton ( whom many scholars have argued was the Fair Youth of the Sonnets ), and the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays was dedicated to Montgomery ( who married Susan de Vere ) and Pembroke ( who was once engaged to Bridget de Vere ).

* Venus de Milo, an ancient Greek statue

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* 1820: Venus de Milo is found on the island of Melos ( Milos ).

* April 8 – The statue of the Venus de Milo ( Aphrodite of Milos, c. 150 BC-125 BC ) is discovered on the Greek island of Milos by a peasant named Yorgos Kentrotas.

File: Cabanel-El Nacimiento de Venus ( Museo de Orsay, París, 1863.

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In 1820, the statue which became known as the Venus de Milo was discovered on the Greek island of Milo and seen by a French naval officer, Emile Voutier.

Aphrodite of Milos (, Aphroditē tēs Mēlou ), better known as the Venus de Milo, is an ancient Greek statue and one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture.

Within a few hours Voutier had uncovered Venus de Milo.

The marble base where the Venus de Milo originally stood still resides today on the property of his great, great nephew, Dimitri Moraitis.

The Venus de Milo is a statue of a naked woman with an apple in her raised left hand, the right hand holding a draped sash falling from hips to feet, both hands damaged and separated from the body.

It was, of course, the Venus de Milo.

The Venus de Milo was found to have been carved from at least six or seven blocks of Parian marble: one block for the nude torso, another block for the draped legs, another block apiece for each arm, another small block for the left foot, another block for the inscribed plinth, and finally, the separately carved herm that stood beside the statue.

In 1920, sculptor Robert Ingersoll Aitken created a stir when he criticized the display, lighting, and placement of the statue of Venus de Milo in the museum.

The Medici Venus, regarded as one of the finest Classical sculptures in existence, caused the French to promote the Venus de Milo as a greater treasure than that which they recently had lost.

Disarmed: The Story of the Venus de Milo.

* Musée du Louvre – Louvre Museum: Venus de Milo

* James Grout, Venus de Milo, part of the Encyclopædia Romana

* Venus de Milo: The Oxford Dictionary of Art

Those famous lines of the Greek Anthology with which a fading beauty dedicates her mirror at the shrine of a goddess reveal a wise attitude: `` Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see ''.

She was the pursuer as clearly as was Venus in Shakespeare's poem.

Steady radiation which was presumably of thermal origin was observed from Venus at 3.15 and 9.4 cm, and from Mars and Jupiter at 3.15 cm in 1956 ( Mayer, McCullough, and Sloanaker, 1958, A, B, C ), and from Saturn at 3.75 cm in 1957 ( Drake and Ewen, 1958 ).

Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.

This image of a fully mature " Venus rising from the sea " ( Venus Anadyomene ) was one of the iconic representations of Aphrodite, made famous in a much-admired painting by Apelles, now lost, but described in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder.

The following year he was put in charge of the Greek games that were staged in honor of the Temple of Venus Genetrix, built by Julius Caesar.

A marriage of sorts is arranged between Dido and Aeneas at the instigation of Juno, who was told of the fact that her favorite city would eventually be defeated by the Trojans ' descendants, and Aeneas's mother Venus ( the Roman adaptation of Aphrodite ), who realizes that her son and his company need a temporary reprieve to reinforce themselves for the journey to come.

However, the messenger god Mercury was sent by Jupiter and Venus to remind Aeneas of his journey and his purpose, compelling him to leave secretly.

One was the celebrated group representing the Parting of Venus and Adonis.

* Pictures of the cave where it is believed by Christians that Jesus was buried and from which it is believed he resurrected and a picture of the remains of the walls of the Temple of Venus previously constructed on that site by the Emperor Hadrian

These cycles would have been of astrological and ritual significance as Venus was associated with Quetzalcoatl or Xolotl.

A great deal of her work, including Delta of Venus and Little Birds, was published posthumously.

A statue of Venus in a bikini was found in a cupboard in the southwest corner in Casa della Venere, others were found in the front hall.

A statue of Venus was recovered from the tablinum of the House of Julia Felix, and another from an atrium at the garden at Via Dell ' Abbondanza.

Toba explained that it was not possible for the staff of Cowboy Bebop to have a dramatic rooftop scene occur on Venus, so " we ended up normally falling back to Mars ".

Although the term " dominatrix " was not used, the classic example in literature of the female dominant-male submissive relationship is portrayed in the 1870 novella Venus in Furs by Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.

The flute, one of several found, was found in the Hohle Fels cavern next to the Venus of Hohle Fels and a short distance from the oldest known human carving.

The Norse name for the planet Venus was Friggjarstjarna ' Frigg's star '.

Uzzā was worshipped by the Nabataeans, who equated her with the Graeco-Roman goddesses Aphrodite, Urania, Venus and Caelestis.

The mission was re-profiled to use several gravitational slingshots, referred to as the " VEEGA " or Venus Earth Earth Gravity Assist maneuvers, to provide the additional velocity required to reach its destination.