Posted on 06/14/2006 12:28:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
For the first time in possibly 170 years, a Roman marble statue of Venus will be reunited with its head as both are coming to the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University, where conservators will piece them back together... A private collector in Houston, Texas, agreed to sell to those who purchased the body at the auction the head as well, which was last documented attached to the body in 1836. The head sold for about $50,000. The 4-foot-6-inch statue is a marble copy from the late 1st century A.D. of an earlier Greek bronze sculpture, which many scholars argue is the most widely reproduced female statue in antiquity... The statue dates from a time when Roman emperors were reviving all things Greek from literature to the arts. It probably stood next to a fountain or pool in the gardens of a wealthy villa somewhere in the Roman Empire, possibly in today's France, where the statue was first documented in the collection of Napoleon's art adviser in the 1830s, Gaunt said.
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This one's too easy. Staying tuned for the bad-taste stuff to follow.
Geez.... I hope someone has a neck for her.
I started to post something...but you're right - it's too easy...
Has anybody found her arms yet?
All of you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Unless, of course, my inference about what you've implied is FAR WORSE than what each of you were thinking.
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I suspect your mind is gutterwards...don't lose your head over it...
I can see her boobs. *snicker*
Wrong Venus statue. Venus DiMilo is the statue without the arms. She's at the Louvre. I went to the Louvre the end of April with three specific items in mind I wanted to see: the Venus DiMilo statue, The Winged Victory of Samothrace statue and the Mona Lisa. Got to see all three, plus tour some of their Egyptian antiquities. My only reason for going to Paris was to get a tour to the D-Day beaches of Normandy and spent my only full day in Paris at the Louvre.
Scientific Recreation of prehistoric Venus: 
So there were fat chick fetishists back then, too.
On a serious note, having a fat spouse was probably quite a status symbol.
If Venus is truly the Goddess of Love, then having a head is pointless. In my experience, having a head, i.e. a brain has little or nothing to do with what I feel.
Thanks. I was feeling kind of fat lately but I feel a bit better now LOL.
Seriously -back in the day, being "well fed" was a sign of sucess as opposed to starving I guess.
In modern times, we shouldn't judge the "new" Venus too harshly. She may very well be a wonderful person well worth knowing. Just a thought :).
You make some very good points.
I'll bear them in mind.
If music be the food of love, play on. Of course, no head means no ears...
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