Venus de Milo – Antique Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Venus de Milo. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Venus de Milo
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The Venus de Milo, the marble statue of Aphrodite carved in the Hellenistic period and found on the Aegean island of Melos in 1820, is the subject of this gelatin silver print, which dates to around 1960. The statue's missing arms have long been part of its appeal, and the work has been one of the most reproduced sculptures in the world since it entered the Louvre in 1821. A photograph of it from the middle of the twentieth century reflects how the figure was studied, displayed and circulated in that era, when museum views and photographic reproductions carried classical art to a wide public.
| Created / published | [ca. 1960] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. |
| Genre | Gelatin silver prints 1950-1970. |
| Notes | Purchase; 1984 (DLC/PP-1984:241). |
| Subjects | Venus de Milo (Sculpture)--1950-1970. Sculpture--1950-1970. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,264 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-189165 |
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