The original marble is housed in The Musée du Louvre.
It has been shared with their permission.
This plaster cast sculpture of Venus de Milo is part of the Statens Museum for Kunst's collection and was scanned in the museum. This 3D printable model was digitised in collaboration between Scan the World and The Statens Museum for Kunst. Henrik Holm, senior research curator at SMK Life edit Alexandros appears to have been a wandering artist who worked on commission. He is thought to be the sculptor of the famous Venus de Milo statue. An Englishman even commissioned a plaster cast as early as 1822, despite the fact that the French and the English were arch-enemies at the time, and today the statue remains far more famous than the Venus Medici. Alexandros of Antioch ( Greek: ) (2nd 1st century BC) was a Greek sculptor of the Hellenistic age. His fathers name was Menides according to all the inscriptions. shorts A 3D printed reproduction of the famous Alexandros of Antioch statue, Venus de Milo, was made in 107 hours.Join our YouTube channel by clicking here. According to inscriptions at the ancient city of Thespiae, near Mount Helicon, in Greece, he was a winner in contests for composing and singing. To compensate for their loss the French promoted the Venus de Milo as the loveliest of all antique statues of woman. Alexandros appears to have been a wandering artist who worked on commission. It was discovered in 1820 and acquired by the French state shortly after Napoleon’s fall in 1815, at which point the French had to return another Venus figure, the Venus Medici (KAS1241) to Italy after Napoleon had seized it as spoils of war. The statue’s fame is partly the result of propaganda. Buy Hommage : Venus de Milo by Alexandros of Antioch Art Print by artraphic. The Hellenistic period begins right around 323 BC with the death of Alexander the Great. It supposedly lost its arms in a struggle arising between two groups of soldiers who sought to claim it as loot when it was first discovered on the island of Milos. The figure is executed in the Hellenistic style and famed for its sensuous appearance. She was depicted in the nude or in various stages of nudity (and painted). Venus (Aphrodite) is the goddess of love.
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