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Venus de Milo ( See appendix A ) �Sarno thought so highly of the goddess of sex and beauty that he commissioned several different Venuses . A farmer discovered the original Venus de Milo on the island of Milos in 1820 . A French officer bought the statue as a gift to the king . The king donated the statue to the Louvre . The statue exhibited the practice of early Greek sculptors of using several blocks of marble for different parts of the statue . They used metal pins and rods to affix the appendages . One of the statue ’ s missing arms held her garment and the other an apple .
Curators “ lost ” the statue ’ s arms and plinth after the statue arrived in Paris . They did this because the name on the plinth threatened their claim that Praxiteles , the greatest Greek sculptor of all , carved their new acquisition and therefore was superior to the Venus de Medici , a statue Napoleon looted from the Italians . Scholars eventually uncovered the fraud . They attributed the sculpture to a lesser sculptor and a much later period . Other scholars insisted it was a copy of a Roman statue . Still others believed the statue was not one of Venus , but of a female sea goddess , Amphitrite . The answers to these assertions remain a subject of scholarly dispute ( Puchko 1 ).
Venus de Medici�The Roman sculptor of this statue falsely attributed his creation to a 1 st century Greek and thereby sought to enhance its value . Venus looks over her left shoulder , her head in profile . Her arms circle protectively in front of her body . Her son Cupid and an Amoretti , a winged child riding a dolphin , sit at her feet . These figures signal to the Greeks and Romans that beauty was not an end in itself , but a means to desire and procreation . The Pope brought the statue to the Villa de Medici in 1638 . However , he thought it lewd and sent it to Florence . Napoleon brought it to France after he conquered Italy . The original Venus de Medici now resides in the Galleria Uffizi in Florence , Italy .
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