How the Venus De Milo Lost Her Arms

Creating the Past: The Vénus de Milo and the Hellenistic Reception of Classical Greece

“…On Melos, France, and the Ottoman empire in the early 19th century, seede Lorris 1994; Curtis 2003, 3-36. On the 19th-century reception of the statue, seeHales 2002; see alsoHaskell and Penny 1981, 328-30; Curtis 2003, 50-163. 9 On the attribution to a fifth-century sculptor, seeReinach (1890, 384), with earlier bibliography.…”