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Teenager recreates Venus sculpture in snow
A teenager has recreated the Venus de Milo out of snow in her back garden. Emily Bates, 17, sculpted the frozen goddess in her Leeds garden when her school had an inset day. Her mum, Sue Bates, said ...
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2,000-Year-Old Headless Statue Found Abandoned In A Garbage Bag Near The Greek City Of Thessaloniki
On January 18, a man walked into a police station in northern Greece with a black plastic bag he'd just found among garbage ...
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2,000-year-old statue found dumped near garbage cans in Greece
Ancient statues have also been found in trash before in other parts of Europe. In 2023, a Roman-era statuette of Venus was ...
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The intriguing lives of world famous statues
King Louis XVIII of France placed this intriguing statue in the Louvre after it was presented to him in the 19th Century. Image caption, The Venus de Milo was found by a farmer on a Greek island ...
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Venus statue
Many statues like those of Mujibur Rahman were defaced for political reasons. But targeting sculptures like that of Lady Justice lay bare the Islamists’ anti-statue agenda.
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An art museum attacked Facebook for banning a photo of its prize exhibit, a 30,000-year-old statue of a naked woman
The company said Ghianda had tried to run an ad with a photo of the Venus, which it mistakenly banned before realising it was a statue. A spokesman for the company told Business Insider in a ...
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Ancient Roman statue of Athena goes on public view for first time in more than 200 years
(Weddell was an avid collector of antiquities, including the so-called Jenkins Venus.) The Halsted curator Karen Manchester notes that the statue is an amalgam of two sculptures from different ...