| 词汇 | venus de milo etc |
| 词源 | Venus de Milo, etc. The Venus de Milo, now in the Louvre and possibly the finest example of ancient art extant, dates from about 400 b.c., but was discovered in 1820 on the Greek island of Milo, or Milos. Other famous statues of the goddess of love are the Venus de’ Medici, so called because it was once kept in Rome’s Medici Palace; the Venus Genetrix, a symbol of fecundity, its last name meaning “she that produces”; and the lost nude Venus of Cnidus, purchased from Praxiteles by the Cnidians, an ancient copy of which is in the Vatican. The Venus Callipyge is a late Greek statue standing in the Museo Nazionale at Naples. There is no good reason for connecting this statue with Venus and its last name translates as “beautiful buttocks,” to use a euphemism. |
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