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The Aphrodite of Milos ( Greek: "AEA DO ´¯A· · ®» TO " ) known as the Venus de Milo, is one of the statues of the Hellenistic period of Greek sculpture, and one of the most famous sculptures of the ancient Greece. It was created sometime between the years 130 and 100 BC, and is believed to represent Aphrodite ( called Venus in Roman mythology ) goddess of love and beauty; It is approximately 211 cm tall.This statue was found in Milo would Cyclades Islands, unearthed by a farmer and sold to France between 1819 and 1820.? The price to the farmer asked for the sculpture was too high, and Dumont (d) 'Urville traveler who made a stop in this place, didn't get enough money and to buy it, so he resorted to a French Ambassador in Constantinople, who agreed to buy it. However, earlier the peasant agreed sell it to the Turks, which began a conflict over possession of the statue.The sculpture was made in white marble, in several blocks whose joints are not visible, in a slightly higher than the natural size; its author is unknown 1 but it is thought that it could be the work of Alejandro de Antioquía. This sculpture has a characteristic style of the end of the Hellenistic age, who takes interest in the classics at the time which renewed them. The Classicist appearance of its forms lead to the assumption that its author, unknown despite their base appearing the signing of a sculptor, was inspired by the statue of the 4th century b.c. of Lysippos, the Afrodita de Capua.
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