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.

Venus has been rising all year and is now a blazing bright point of light in the post-sunset western sky after dark. No wonder, then, that it’s nicknamed the “Evening Star” when it’s ...

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 ...

February is the best month to see Venus. But clouds, storms might make it hard to spot in Mississippi on Valentine's Day. How stargazers see it.

(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 ...