Sculpture

Reproduction patinated by hand. Mold made from an imprint of the original work exhibited at the Louvre. About the original: The Venus of Milo occupies a prominent position in the history of Greek sculpture and the fascination for antiquities. It is, in fact, an original Greek statue dated around 100 B.C., that was found by chance by a peasant in 1820, not far from the ruins of an antique theatre on the island of Melos (or Milo), in the south west of the Cyclades. The style, sometimes described as retrospective, is typical of the end of the Hellenistic period, which started to innovate while