Relating how the French returned to Melos just in time to intercept a Russian boat bearing their treasure away, Curtis dismisses the mythic "fight on the beach" in which the Venus supposedly lost her arms she had been found without them. Dumont D'Urville,introduction by Helen Rosenmann)Īnother source, contemporary author Gregory Curtis, disagrees:
(Two Voyages to the South Seas,Memoirs of Captain Jules S.-C. In the mêlée the statue was roughly dragged across rocks to the ship, breaking off both arms, and the sailors refused to go back to search for them. Before he could take delivery, French sailors had to fight Greek brigands for possession. The tenacious d'Urville on arrival at Constantinople showed the sketches he had made to the French ambassador, the Marquis de Riviére, who sent his secretary in a French Navy vessel to buy it for France. He was eager to acquire it, but his practical captain, apparently uninterested in antiquities, said there was nowhere to store it on the ship, so the transaction lapsed. D'Urville the classicist recognized the Venus of the Judgement of Paris. When was Venus de Milo carved It was carved from marble by Alexandros, a sculptor of Antioch on the Maeander River about 150 bce. Venus de Milo may also refer to: Music 'Venus de Milo', a song by D.I. This outstanding armless statue produced between 130 and 100 BC was first attributed to the sculptor Praxiteles however, the inscription on its plinth indicates that it is the work of Alexandros of Antioch. Even with a broken nose, the face was beautiful. Venus de Milo is a statue believed to have been carved by Alexandros of Antioch. It was 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. Ashore, d'Urville and Matterer met a Greek peasant, who a few days earlier while ploughing had uncovered blocks of marble and a statue in two pieces, which he offered cheaply to the two young men. Twelve days out of Touloun the ship was anchored off the island of Melos. One source says the arms were broken off when a French officer tried to buy the statue. It is widely considered to set a standard of feminine The Capuan Venus is caught in a pose where Venus admires her reflection in a shield placed close to her knee, while she holds an Apple (the Apple of Discord) in her raised, left hand.
Venus de Milo by the sculptor Alexandros of Antioch-on-the-Meander, is one of the most famous pieces of classical Greek sculpture, easily recognizable by virtue of its missing arms.
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