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5 unusual facts about Venus de Milo


Abolhassan Sadighi

After numerous experiences in creating plaster sculptures, he made his first stone sculpture on a stucco model of Venus de Milo.

Alexandros of Antioch

Alexandros of Antioch was an otherwise unknown artist of the Hellenistic age who is best known today for the Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Milos) at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.

Harenchi Gakuen

For the depiction of breasts, he took particular inspiration from the Venus de Milo.

Mona Freeman

Also in 1952, she was called a "vest pocket Venus" by sculptor Yucca Salamunich because her proportions were the same as those of the Venus de Milo but three-quarter size.

The Stratagem and other Stories

The third short story, "His Secret Sin", was first published in "The Equinox" volume I, no.8 in 1912 and has a pervert absconding with a photograph of the Venus de Milo.



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