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Venus de Milo: The Most Famous Armless Statue in the World




The Venus de Milo is perennially one of the hottest attractions at the Louvre Musuem in Paris, France. Todd Gipstein/Getty Images
She s one of the most recognizable figures in the art world, but shrouded in mystery. Ever since Louis XVIII donated her to the Louvre in 1821, she s captured the attention and praise of audiences and historians, but many are still baffled by her origins who
is Venus de Milo, and what exactly happened to her arms?
The half-naked marble goddess many of us know as Venus de Milo actually likely represents two figures who are
notVenus, the Roman goddess of love, sex, beauty and fertility. The statue is thought to represent either Aphrodite, Venus s Greek counterpart, or Amphitrite, the goddess-queen of the sea and wife of Poseidon. But when the statue was discovered in 1820 on the Greek island of Melos (Milos in modern Greek) and presented to Louis (who in turn donated her to the Louvre), no one was quite sure what to ....

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The Tiara of Saitaphernes: Wow Antique? Fake? Fine Art? Find Out


The Tiara of Saitaphernes: Initially Commissioned As A Gift
The story of the Tiara of Saitaphernes begins in 1894 AD. In that year, the object was commissioned by a pair of brothers from the Ukrainian city of Ochakiv. The brothers Shepsel and Leiba Gokhman (also spelled as Hochmann) approached Israel Rouchomovsky, a goldsmith and jeweler based in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, for the job. Rouchomovsky was a master of his craft and his work was appreciated by Peter Carl Fabergé. The Russian jeweler, famed for his Fabergé eggs, considered Rouchomovsky to be the “greatest goldsmith of all time.”
 
 
Rouchomovsky was born in 1860 into an Orthodox Jewish family. His parents, who wanted him to become a rabbi, sent him to a religious school. Even as a child, however, Rouchomovsky was much more inclined towards the arts. Possessing both passion and skill, he taught himself and mastered engraving and jewelry making. Thanks to his creative mind, Rouchomovsky was al ....

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