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Venus de Milo

Sculptural Works

An ancient Greek marble statue of Aphrodite, created around 150-100 BCE and discovered on the island of Milos in 1820. Missing both arms since its discovery, it has become one of the most recognized surviving works of Hellenistic sculpture and is held at the Louvre.

Facts
Year Created
150 BCE 1
Location
Louvre, Paris 1
Classification
Genre
Sculpture 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Stone sculpture 2
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In Form

Sculpture, Art Forms
Source Wikipedia
Additional Source Venus de Milo (Wikipedia)

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Sculpture, Art Forms

Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.

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Sources
1. Wikipedia
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2. Venus de Milo (Wikipedia)
  • infobox medium field: Parian marble
  • Lead section
    The Venus de Milo or Aphrodite of Melos is an ancient Greek marble sculpture that was created during the Hellenistic period.
  • In Category: Works
  • In Form: Sculpture
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