The artwork—a statue of Venus, the Roman goddess of love, sex, beauty and fertility, and a heap of rags—stands in the Italian city’s Piazza Municipio once again following a ceremony Wednesday.
A tiny head carved from mammoth ivory looks back at us from the Stone Age. This sculpture, discovered at the archaeological ...
Ancient statues have also been found in trash before in other parts of Europe. In 2023, a Roman-era statuette of Venus was discovered in a trash dump in Rennes, France. That same year, ancient ...
King Louis XVIII of France placed this intriguing statue in the Louvre after it was presented to him in the 19th Century. Image caption, The Venus de Milo was found by a farmer on a Greek island ...
(Weddell was an avid collector of antiquities, including the so-called Jenkins Venus.) The Halsted curator Karen Manchester notes that the statue is an amalgam of two sculptures from different ...
The company said Ghianda had tried to run an ad with a photo of the Venus, which it mistakenly banned before realising it was a statue. A spokesman for the company told Business Insider in a ...