Venus
The Venus de Milo, a historical misnomer corrupted by art historians who considered Roman identification more scholarly and therefore Romanized many Greek masterpieces. So, we’re actually considering Aphrodite of Milos by Alexandros of Antioch on the Meander in the second century BC. Furthermore, the statue is carved from Parian marble which is only quarried on the Greek island of Paros.
After two thousand years, we still have questions. Was Milos an artist’s colony importing Parian...