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.

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 bronze ...

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 ...

The sculpture appears to represent a woman's face ... Unlike other objects from the site — such as the Venus of Věstonice, which lacks facial features — this face seems to be individualized ...

(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 ...

Through her thought-provoking practice, New York-based artist Prune Nourry challenges perceptions of femininity, the sacred and the body’s resilience, as seen in her new exhibition in Paris.

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 ...