I've always thought, the reason to her iconic success was because of the fact that she was.. incomplete. Her limbs weren't there and gave us a reason to create our own interpretations of it and question the artwork through our own abilities of perceiving. She's the most 'mysterious' one out there in my opinion. The history itself also becomes an interesting part to analyze
Venus de Milo reminds me of a Get Backers (an anime) arc that was about some rich, artsy guy who was totally in love with Venus de Milo. His girlfriend or wife or something had obtained Venus de Milo's missing arms and wanted to reattach them to the statue so that her beauty would be destroyed and he would come back to her. I dunno, the mini-plot made a very big impact on me even though I barely remember the story. It felt so poetic.
@@nokaton Perhaps it also makes the statue feel more precious. Like, isn't it lucky that people have been able to preserve this much of it? Oddly, this does not seem to be the case for other damaged statues. I think it helps that she kept her face.
@@hamsandwichindahouse bruh I get where you're coming from, but he tried to point out this was a piece that's remarkable in specifically European history, and that it would make sense that it'd garner European attention, whom also use the metric system. He never really excluded other non-Americans in this context.
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Same thing, just like how Australians and New Zealanders are the same or Americans and Canadians are the same or Germans and Austrians are the same..... Joking by the way!
@@Defensive_Wounds even if it is a joke, it should be clear that Romans and Greeks were two different cultures and of different origins unlike the examples you gave above.
I like Les Bourgeois de Calais by Auguste Rodin the most. And arguably, it has a better story than The Thinker. VOX could tell why did it take so long for Rodin to make the statue and also, the history of Calais citizens.
I know that the Venus de Milo is always held up as the epitome of female beauty. But even though it lacks a head, I think that the Nike of Samothrace is much more beautiful and expressive. It is, by far, my favourite sculpture.
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4:05 Isn't it more "glorious" for the statue be identified as "Hellenistic" than "Classical"? Since Napoleon wants to be in line of the glorious empires of Greek (Hellenistic), and Rome. Also, it should be Aphrodite, since it was created by a Greek sculptor in a Greek island during the Greek Era.
The last "glorious Greek empire" was Classical, and ended with Alexander the Great. The Hellenistic period is mostly one of exporting Greek culture abroad, so the art is a lot more diverse (and interesting), but I guess Napoleon-era art standards would consider it "more bastardized."
@@ikaemos Are you for real? The kings of the line of Ptolemy ruled Egypt and Seleucids ruled West Asia. The greatest powers of their age and centres of culture and science. The Hellenistic era is called like that for a reason
@T. O. T. U. N. T. shut up, its the french that made this statue famous without the french you would have never known about this statue, the guy who sold it found it in his proprety, it doesn't belong to greece but the guy that found it, now it belong to the Louvre museum since they bought it, its not about having foreign artefact but more about having a peice of every civilisation that had existed, the Louvre museum has artefact from across the world not just France
@T. O. T. U. N. T. do you know the concept of museums??? you haven't been to many museums in your life. have you??? this statue doesn't belong to Greece, if you decide to create privately in your room a painting does it belong to Greece, there's french artifact in almost every museums across the world, nobody in France is complaining, this statue belong to the Louvre museum whether you like it or not, the Louvre museum is not your typical village museum, it is a giant global museum with hundreds of thousands artifacts from across the world and every civilisation, you don't come to the Louvre to see french artifact, but world artifact, if you want to see french artifact you have countless other museums in France for that, the Louvre is different it is not only the biggest museum in the world but also the oldest
@@cardett75 Most ancient artifices in the museum of Louvre are stolen as a matter of fact and do not come from privately bought collections of the past. As a person who has been to Louvre I found it disgusting how many stolen artefacts there are in there, not only from Greece and Cyprus but also from other countries. They should have already been given back to the original countries a long time ago but if they did that then Louvre would have nearly no ancient artefacts to show off. Hence they do not give them back as then the museum would not be as profitable for them in the future.
Well you know, standards in art change all the time. There were probably thousands of sculptures more realistic and dynamic than Venus de Milo, but by our standards today, it's the pinnacle of classical sculpture (even tho it isn't Classical lol). If it were made nowadays, no one would bat an eye tho. There are thousands of artists around the world who are perfectly capable of making impressive marble statues in the classical style, because the information and training to do so is more plentiful and more widely disseminated than ever before. Also, the art world has changed. Ever since Modern art, many institutions are more attracted to abstract and non-realistic works. The invention of photography made it so that artists don't need to always be realistic or to paint like Renaissance masters.
We know who the sculptor was, the plinth that was removed had this inscription: “Alexandros, son of Menides, citizen of Antioch on the Meander made the statue”
There are some rumours that when the Greek sold the statue to the French, the statue had arms. But during the selling the arms got broke either from an argument between the Greeks and French or when the statue was being brought aboard a French ship. Surprised that Vox didn't mention that...
I read it was a fight between Turkish and French for the statue's possession. There are a lot of rumours regarding this statue so i believe it's understandable.
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@@TheMedicatedArtist It was, but to be fair, it also didn't shy away from depicting women with various weponry. @Jon I, I think the question is not so much "Was she Aphrodite or Venus?" but rather "Was she a goddes of love at all?" She easily could have been someone else entirely, with different attributes...
We are all born mad aphrodite was almost never depicted with weaponry, since she was a goddess of love and beauty. normally athena, artemis, nike, and other war goddesses would be tho
@@kat5594 Yeah, I know. And I suppose it wouldn't go amiss to point out that to see weapons as somehow better than a weaving wheel is a sexism of its own - just a bit hidden. That being said. Do we have _any_ clues that the woman in the sculpture is Aphrodite, other than the fact that some French guy named her Venus?
@Jon I Aphrodite's various symbols didn't include a distaff. It was Athena who was associated with it, and she's also the goddess who weaved, and a major player in the well-known tale of Arachne.
iconic and relatable. she digs at the universal experience of not knowing what to do with your arms. every other statue of venus looked awkward and uncentered to me. de milo feels the most distilled and honest. without her arms, posed in her half tilt, i see a woman absolutely in control of herself. self-confident and powerful. playing a harp, holding a mirror, touching a man. these are all staged actions that centre the audience's need for context. what does venus create, give, do? what is her worth to the world? but beauty is not a creation or a gift. love in itself has worth to the world. without arms, venus simply is.
I think the video misses one important point, which is how rare Hellenistic sculptures are. As far as I know the Louvre only has two examples: Venus de Milo and the Winged Victory of Somothrace. Every other sculpture in the museum is classical, often reproductions of earlier lost Hellenistic sculptures. Hellenistic sculpture was also often done with wood (which rotted) or bronze (which was sometimes smelted for re-use), meaning even fewer sculptured survived. So, perhaps her earlier fame was for different reasons, but her current fame is largely due to how rare such an example is, especially one in (relatively) good condition, showing sophisticated sculpting techniques dating from such an early period. Note: I'm not an art historian, so please correct me if I'm missing anything.
The arms fell off. They were separate pieces of stone held on by tenons, too. You can see the holes where the tenons fit, especially on her left shoulder. It's likely they were from a different piece of stone than the torso.
Phil, your videos are the most educational and mind thrilling at Vox channel. Thanks to you and team who helped you make this video. Extra points for translating inches to metric system :)
It's interesting how important branding is in art. I mean taking an artist and making them globally famous, so their work becomes worth more than anyone else's work and people flock to galleries to see it. The French are brilliant at it which is why everyone on earth knows the Mona Lisa. I actually worked on a panel for the National Gallery of Scotland to discuss ways to promote Scottish artists so that when tourists come to Scotland they want to see a famous work, like with Van Gogh in the Netherlands. Edinburgh attracts millions of tourists and we have globally famous authors but the city has never seemed to value art. There are countless statues and they are all war memorials or politicians. Unlike France, Italy or Spain where there is tons of statues and art simply to makes cities and towns more beautiful. We recently opened another statue in Edinburgh and it was to honour a Polish bear that was a mascot of Polish soldiers in Edinburg during the war. So we have around 200 statues to regiments and battles and instead of something just for art they decided a military bear was needed to be honoured. No wonder we have no artists.
Of the music listed at the end I could only find magic fountain and con dulce, but not montmartre memories. Maybe this is the piano piece but I haven't been able to find out the actual music so I'm not sure. Shazam doesn't help either because the man begins speaking way too early in the video.
I don't know who made it, I don't know if it is from hellenistic period or classic, and really I don't care - the important thing is that this statue, of Aphrodite of Milos, is beautiful.
Vox should make a video about ''The Birth of Venus''. That painting is my favorite interpretation of the Goddess Venus. I love how Sandro Botticelli depicted Venus as a voluptuous, red hair woman in all his pantings.
They just bought a commission of the same thing they had already stolen (and lost) from some guy that found it again on Google and deleted the watermark.
You were actually right, im not flexing but my school has some Venus de Milo replica too but not that high tho... It was too common to see that it's a masterpiece.
2:57 young Danny Devito? This picture was in one of my books in middle school and I wrote on it DANNY DEVITO~ !!! Needless to say, I was not a very popular kid. I recognize now the "pity but out of love for children's mental health fiendships" from some awersome teachers back then.
But it isn't sure at all that the second part of the plinth was that which was found next to the statue. In fact it seems that they didn't correspond. And as for the inscription : nothing says it wasn't added later on the plinth. No, we have to judge this statue according to stylistic criterias only.
Why do you think the Louvre was desperate and "had a huge problem" in 1814? The Louvre, like the Hermitage in Leningrad, received all the art pieces looted from the killed/exiled French aristocracy and estates. The Louvre only holds pre-1815 art, so considering how filled it is, I don't think it was 'desperate'. It had the Mona Lisa by this time too.
When I heard: "...when he was searching for art to plunder..." I instinctively reacted, wait that's not how it happened! Except, of course, that's exactly what happened.
There is also a theory that Venus de Milo is not even Venus/Aphrodite at all. She might be Amphitrite, goddess of the sea and wife of Poseidon, who was worshiped on Milos.
I've seen this Venus in the Louvre. In the Louvre are a lot of statues, including some of Michelangelo. The Venus however, is the most beautiful. Go see it in real, because pictures don't do it justice.
The Gummi Venus de Milo (also referred to as "Gummi Venus"), the rarest gummi of them all, it was carved by gummi artisans who work exclusively in the medium of gummi.
This is like tracing some master's artwork in your sketch-book while practicing; then tossing it away; only for someone else to dig it up hundreds of years later and view it as a master-piece. It's kind of ironic that this sculpture is so massively renown when it's far past the classical era and, while very well done, was probably made by an apprentice level artist who was studying and not attempting a masterpiece.
I've always thought, the reason to her iconic success was because of the fact that she was.. incomplete. Her limbs weren't there and gave us a reason to create our own interpretations of it and question the artwork through our own abilities of perceiving. She's the most 'mysterious' one out there in my opinion. The history itself also becomes an interesting part to analyze
Sure, the fact that she lost her limbs also makes her look ancient, giving people the sense of genuineness.
Agree. I also like her posture without limb. It is just perfect despite its defects.
Yeah like justice, you can't make justice perfect. I love how Venus can interpret beauty and justice.
Venus de Milo reminds me of a Get Backers (an anime) arc that was about some rich, artsy guy who was totally in love with Venus de Milo. His girlfriend or wife or something had obtained Venus de Milo's missing arms and wanted to reattach them to the statue so that her beauty would be destroyed and he would come back to her.
I dunno, the mini-plot made a very big impact on me even though I barely remember the story. It felt so poetic.
@@nokaton Perhaps it also makes the statue feel more precious. Like, isn't it lucky that people have been able to preserve this much of it? Oddly, this does not seem to be the case for other damaged statues. I think it helps that she kept her face.
Thanks for inclunding centimeters on the measurements, really helps understand for every non-American!
I mean, this bit on European cultural history will get European viewers watching; so of course Vox has to be fair to them as well...
@@hamsandwichindahouse bruh I get where you're coming from, but he tried to point out this was a piece that's remarkable in specifically European history, and that it would make sense that it'd garner European attention, whom also use the metric system. He never really excluded other non-Americans in this context.
But... 'merica...
Nah, Shaq-esque was the best measurement system.
@@hamsandwichindahouse I really hope this comment is a joke
I know about homegirl while playing The Sims 2. She is best when placed in the garden.
LOL I was wondering why I recognized her so easily
Omgg same
omg yass
Lol yes i knew i saw that statue somewhere else before 😁😂
I love sims
venus de milo: i lost arms
modern ppl: *aesthetic*
ah yes,
*humor*
she's Crystal Kehr clay
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@@saqlainhaider5196 im not gonna believe you, you sound SUPER suspicious
@@rogueanuerzthank you for making me lol
Video about a Greek statue
Background music : Italian....
I'm not sure if this is the case with Venus de Milo but most marble statues are Roman copies of Greek bronze sculptures
@@beautifulcarpetdiagram This is not the case. It's an original Greek marble statue.
So annoying
Same thing, just like how Australians and New Zealanders are the same or Americans and Canadians are the same or Germans and Austrians are the same..... Joking by the way!
@@Defensive_Wounds even if it is a joke, it should be clear that Romans and Greeks were two different cultures and of different origins unlike the examples you gave above.
Up next: why Michaelangelo's David is the icon of vaporwave
Because ... A E S T H E T I C S ...
I know you’re joking but I kind of want to know now
Because of that album cover.
Beatle Mania But that’s Helios
@@beatlemania8273 what album cover?
No one :
Venus de Milo : “You think your life is hard, I’m wearing size 15 nikes. Men’s size 15 nikes. Beat that.”
This shall remain top comment
Random tiktoker: I have cancer
I was waiting for someone to comment that
Except shaq beat her
i was thinking of that reference
It's like the thing with Mona Lisa. Both of these artworks art propped up by their circumstances rather than their artistic qualities.
Exactly! even I wrote a similar comment about it
Exactly, also Louvre knows how to keep the visitors come
It's still an incredible statue though.
The Mona Lisa is actually a very interesting very well done painting. It just needs to be cleaned properly...
I think that Vox is gonna talk about “The thinker” statue one day.
You "think"?
a video about Rodin in general would be great, I'm surprised that not that many people know him:)
my favorite is Michelangelo's "David" for obvious reasons
I like Les Bourgeois de Calais by Auguste Rodin the most. And arguably, it has a better story than The Thinker. VOX could tell why did it take so long for Rodin to make the statue and also, the history of Calais citizens.
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The most unfortunate part of the Louvre’s coverup is that the original artist of the piece went uncredited for years.
The man's been dead for several millennia at this point, I think he has more important things to worry about than being uncredited for a sculpture.
I know that the Venus de Milo is always held up as the epitome of female beauty. But even though it lacks a head, I think that the Nike of Samothrace is much more beautiful and expressive. It is, by far, my favourite sculpture.
Its famous because it's *a e s t h e t h i c*
*h m m a e s t h e t h i c s*
So basically they filed the serial numbers off and changed the odometer to make it more valuable? Just a bunch of used car salesmen...
That is the rarest Gummi of them all, the Gummi Venus de Milo, carved by Gummi artisans who work exclusively in the medium of Gummi.
They were really painted with colors. Why are they all white now?
@@mikeserrano734 the paint fades in the sun. Some old buildings and statues still have slight colouration
@@benjaminmcintosh857 so all greek and roman statues were really colored right?
Will you two stop saying gummi so much?!
@@mikeserrano734 I know Roman statues were, I assume Greek statues were too but I cannot say as such with such assuredness.
The production value of these videos is incredible
*is incredible ; )
@@NCbassfishing24 haha fixed! thanks
the sound mix tho
2:07
You think your life is hard? She's wearing those 15 sized nikes. Mens.
what dost it mean
Nike is actually the greek godess of victory (like the Roman godess Victoria).
😂😂😂😂😂 you guys dont get the reference to this comment if ya'll be asking that. Hahahah
I wish I could find random old marble statues in my back yard.
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@Moon money 🙄??
I wish i have a backyard
Now, give her back !
"Aphrodite get dressed you're coming home."
“These are all the same woman. Which one do you recognize?”
Me: That one
“Why?”
Me: Animal Cross- ... ohh yeah right, international icon
BAHSSJJEJDB me too
i was gonna say "thumbnail"
lol time to take some time off from virtual reality
4:05 Isn't it more "glorious" for the statue be identified as "Hellenistic" than "Classical"? Since Napoleon wants to be in line of the glorious empires of Greek (Hellenistic), and Rome.
Also, it should be Aphrodite, since it was created by a Greek sculptor in a Greek island during the Greek Era.
The last "glorious Greek empire" was Classical, and ended with Alexander the Great. The Hellenistic period is mostly one of exporting Greek culture abroad, so the art is a lot more diverse (and interesting), but I guess Napoleon-era art standards would consider it "more bastardized."
because art snobs
@@ikaemos Are you for real? The kings of the line of Ptolemy ruled Egypt and Seleucids ruled West Asia. The greatest powers of their age and centres of culture and science. The Hellenistic era is called like that for a reason
**Venus de Milo gets lost on a tiny Greek island**
_Proceeds to become international icon_
heh
So you know it more accurate to use "of" instead of "de" because "de" is not a Greek word
@@sofiaspirou9059 'of' is not a Greek word, either, and neither is the word 'Venus'. :)
"Why me?" that's what I ask myself every morning.
Last time I was this early the Venus the Milo still had arms.
Vox with the stories we didn't know we needed.
So nobody's looking for her arms? This masterpiece is iconic the way it is but I think it deserves to be complete.
She's still worth seeing today because she's a beautiful example of Hellenistic sculpture.
OK NOW GIVE HER BACK. Also it's APHRODITE
In case you missed it, it was bought
@T. O. T. U. N. T. shut up, its the french that made this statue famous without the french you would have never known about this statue, the guy who sold it found it in his proprety, it doesn't belong to greece but the guy that found it, now it belong to the Louvre museum since they bought it, its not about having foreign artefact but more about having a peice of every civilisation that had existed, the Louvre museum has artefact from across the world not just France
@T. O. T. U. N. T. do you know the concept of museums??? you haven't been to many museums in your life. have you??? this statue doesn't belong to Greece, if you decide to create privately in your room a painting does it belong to Greece, there's french artifact in almost every museums across the world, nobody in France is complaining, this statue belong to the Louvre museum whether you like it or not, the Louvre museum is not your typical village museum, it is a giant global museum with hundreds of thousands artifacts from across the world and every civilisation, you don't come to the Louvre to see french artifact, but world artifact, if you want to see french artifact you have countless other museums in France for that, the Louvre is different it is not only the biggest museum in the world but also the oldest
@@cardett75 Most ancient artifices in the museum of Louvre are stolen as a matter of fact and do not come from privately bought collections of the past.
As a person who has been to Louvre I found it disgusting how many stolen artefacts there are in there, not only from Greece and Cyprus but also from other countries.
They should have already been given back to the original countries a long time ago but if they did that then Louvre would have nearly no ancient artefacts to show off.
Hence they do not give them back as then the museum would not be as profitable for them in the future.
@@cardett75 No, YOU shut up, colonial. Typical colonial response to being called out on the typical colonial activity of exploiting another culture. 🙄
And we don't even know who the sculptor was. Probably a random unkown dude that made mediocre sculptures... its ironic, isnt it?
Um,greeks know who the sculptor is
Well you know, standards in art change all the time. There were probably thousands of sculptures more realistic and dynamic than Venus de Milo, but by our standards today, it's the pinnacle of classical sculpture (even tho it isn't Classical lol).
If it were made nowadays, no one would bat an eye tho. There are thousands of artists around the world who are perfectly capable of making impressive marble statues in the classical style, because the information and training to do so is more plentiful and more widely disseminated than ever before.
Also, the art world has changed. Ever since Modern art, many institutions are more attracted to abstract and non-realistic works. The invention of photography made it so that artists don't need to always be realistic or to paint like Renaissance masters.
We know who the sculptor was, the plinth that was removed had this inscription:
“Alexandros, son of Menides, citizen of Antioch on the Meander made the statue”
@@ThePooper3000 So true about photography, that's why Picasso never made realistic art.
@@ThePooper3000 I hope video games and CG movies come to that conclussion soon too.
There are some rumours that when the Greek sold the statue to the French, the statue had arms. But during the selling the arms got broke either from an argument between the Greeks and French or when the statue was being brought aboard a French ship. Surprised that Vox didn't mention that...
I read it was a fight between Turkish and French for the statue's possession. There are a lot of rumours regarding this statue so i believe it's understandable.
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@@zzureee No, that is part of a popular falsehood. There was never any permanent Turkish presence on the island.
The historic truth is that the arms were never found. A popular falsehood is that they were broken off during a fight that never happened.
"It started with a missing piece"
Me: Right, her arm..
*Him pointing out some random place*
Me: Oh...
"Which of these do you recognize" *starts to sweat in classics major*
It would be cool if the vid had talked about the fact that she's likely holding a spindle and distaff and spinning some kind of yarn!
Hamsandwichindahouse
That’s adorable; you think the ancient world wasn’t sexist
@@TheMedicatedArtist It was, but to be fair, it also didn't shy away from depicting women with various weponry.
@Jon I, I think the question is not so much "Was she Aphrodite or Venus?" but rather "Was she a goddes of love at all?" She easily could have been someone else entirely, with different attributes...
We are all born mad aphrodite was almost never depicted with weaponry, since she was a goddess of love and beauty. normally athena, artemis, nike, and other war goddesses would be tho
@@kat5594 Yeah, I know. And I suppose it wouldn't go amiss to point out that to see weapons as somehow better than a weaving wheel is a sexism of its own - just a bit hidden.
That being said. Do we have _any_ clues that the woman in the sculpture is Aphrodite, other than the fact that some French guy named her Venus?
@Jon I Aphrodite's various symbols didn't include a distaff. It was Athena who was associated with it, and she's also the goddess who weaved, and a major player in the well-known tale of Arachne.
Vox is low key underrated for the work they put in.
1:16 yes the legendary Hermès and Hercules pez dispensers
3:05 should be Lao-coh-on. Laocoön
Thank you for the shout out to your local library :) We're a lot more than just books these days!
It is a beautiful statue. I’ve seen it up close once. Absolutely beautiful.
One of the statues in the first frames is Iphigenia, not Venus
Please talk about the Elgin marbles !
It's incredible how much culture Greece has given to the world
Lol
Like yoghurt
@@Swukelz yoghurt is Turkish.
@@samitekce2484 the word is turkish, but it's not a turkish invention
Like Democracy
The soundtrack is exceptionally good in this video
iconic and relatable. she digs at the universal experience of not knowing what to do with your arms.
every other statue of venus looked awkward and uncentered to me. de milo feels the most distilled and honest. without her arms, posed in her half tilt, i see a woman absolutely in control of herself. self-confident and powerful.
playing a harp, holding a mirror, touching a man. these are all staged actions that centre the audience's need for context. what does venus create, give, do? what is her worth to the world? but beauty is not a creation or a gift. love in itself has worth to the world. without arms, venus simply is.
I really really enjoyed the content Vox put out!! This was really interesting and well made
The TMNT character that we don't talk about.
I think the video misses one important point, which is how rare Hellenistic sculptures are. As far as I know the Louvre only has two examples: Venus de Milo and the Winged Victory of Somothrace. Every other sculpture in the museum is classical, often reproductions of earlier lost Hellenistic sculptures. Hellenistic sculpture was also often done with wood (which rotted) or bronze (which was sometimes smelted for re-use), meaning even fewer sculptured survived. So, perhaps her earlier fame was for different reasons, but her current fame is largely due to how rare such an example is, especially one in (relatively) good condition, showing sophisticated sculpting techniques dating from such an early period. Note: I'm not an art historian, so please correct me if I'm missing anything.
The arms fell off. They were separate pieces of stone held on by tenons, too. You can see the holes where the tenons fit, especially on her left shoulder. It's likely they were from a different piece of stone than the torso.
Phil, your videos are the most educational and mind thrilling at Vox channel. Thanks to you and team who helped you make this video. Extra points for translating inches to metric system :)
How about the Nike Of Samothraki?
It's interesting how important branding is in art. I mean taking an artist and making them globally famous, so their work becomes worth more than anyone else's work and people flock to galleries to see it. The French are brilliant at it which is why everyone on earth knows the Mona Lisa.
I actually worked on a panel for the National Gallery of Scotland to discuss ways to promote Scottish artists so that when tourists come to Scotland they want to see a famous work, like with Van Gogh in the Netherlands.
Edinburgh attracts millions of tourists and we have globally famous authors but the city has never seemed to value art. There are countless statues and they are all war memorials or politicians. Unlike France, Italy or Spain where there is tons of statues and art simply to makes cities and towns more beautiful. We recently opened another statue in Edinburgh and it was to honour a Polish bear that was a mascot of Polish soldiers in Edinburg during the war. So we have around 200 statues to regiments and battles and instead of something just for art they decided a military bear was needed to be honoured. No wonder we have no artists.
I've got my hot pink 3D print right here on my desk now! Thanks for the library tip :)!
What’s the name of the piano piece? Starting at 4:52 ?
The music they used is listed at 5:29
Of the music listed at the end I could only find magic fountain and con dulce, but not montmartre memories. Maybe this is the piano piece but I haven't been able to find out the actual music so I'm not sure. Shazam doesn't help either because the man begins speaking way too early in the video.
This is the second time Vox has made a video about a famous art piece RIGHT AFTER i learned about it in my art history class
I don't know who made it, I don't know if it is from hellenistic period or classic, and really I don't care - the important thing is that this statue, of Aphrodite of Milos, is beautiful.
Vox should make a video about ''The Birth of Venus''. That painting is my favorite interpretation of the Goddess Venus. I love how Sandro Botticelli depicted Venus as a voluptuous, red hair woman in all his pantings.
4:39 That guy on right. He is looking to future. To us.
hahhahhahahah mygosh
Love these videos. The life of an art object is absolutely a component in why they remain interesting over time and across distances.
Vox should make more videos about art & history, and less about politics.
Yea
They just bought a commission of the same thing they had already stolen (and lost) from some guy that found it again on Google and deleted the watermark.
PRECIOUS VENUS **DROOLS**
finally some culture around here lol
SWEE- SWEET PRECIOUS
chatgpt X OPEN AI X DEEP LEARNING X Venus de Milo (3D reconstruction)
We appreciate putting the measurements in metric system. Thanks!
The biggest mystery are not her missing arms, but her foot
She's worth seeing & iconic b/c the piece is simply stunning
THANK YOU SO MUCH for metric measures. It helps a lot and saves a lot of time.
You were actually right, im not flexing but my school has some Venus de Milo replica too but not that high tho... It was too common to see that it's a masterpiece.
2:03 Comparing the Venus de Milo to Shaq just made my day
2:57 young Danny Devito? This picture was in one of my books in middle school and I wrote on it DANNY DEVITO~ !!!
Needless to say, I was not a very popular kid. I recognize now the "pity but out of love for children's mental health fiendships" from some awersome teachers back then.
You buy some pretty expensive 'decent' used cars my dude.
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My thoughts exactly
More of these types of videos please!
$11,000 dollars today, you say? How many Mike Bloomberg ads is that, exactly?
That's just the weekly Starbucks bill of the ad exec alone
Pafemanti one and a half
2nd3rd1st
exactly right.
LOL
Them: talking about ancient Greek statue
Me: wonder if you can find it in assassin's Creed
3:05 Latin student here. It is Laco - ON
Omg same!! I'm in the JCL too. And yes, I hate it when people mis-pronounce mythological names like that!
Wow. What is the name of the intro music?
Do one on Mona Lisa!!
But it isn't sure at all that the second part of the plinth was that which was found next to the statue. In fact it seems that they didn't correspond. And as for the inscription : nothing says it wasn't added later on the plinth. No, we have to judge this statue according to stylistic criterias only.
Why do you think the Louvre was desperate and "had a huge problem" in 1814? The Louvre, like the Hermitage in Leningrad, received all the art pieces looted from the killed/exiled French aristocracy and estates. The Louvre only holds pre-1815 art, so considering how filled it is, I don't think it was 'desperate'. It had the Mona Lisa by this time too.
Loved it! Can anyone recommend more videos like this? Maybe about baroque period
0:00 0:43 Plz tell me the name of the song plz tell me plz plz plz plz plz plz luvvia 😃😃😃
The music placement is lit
The background music in this video is so dope
When I heard: "...when he was searching for art to plunder..."
I instinctively reacted, wait that's not how it happened!
Except, of course, that's exactly what happened.
There is also a theory that Venus de Milo is not even Venus/Aphrodite at all. She might be Amphitrite, goddess of the sea and wife of Poseidon, who was worshiped on Milos.
Someone please give me the names of the music used in the background
Venus: "You think your life is bad? I wear size 15 Nikes... men's size 15 Nikes!"
Isn't venus the roman counterpart of Aphrodite? So why was a statue of a Roman goddess counted as a classical work of ancient Greek...? I'm confused.
I just looked up this photo for reference today. Never had seen in before in my life. And then this video got recommended. Huh.
Lol I've used the 3D scan at 0:34 so many times for my art stuff
I've seen this Venus in the Louvre. In the Louvre are a lot of statues, including some of Michelangelo. The Venus however, is the most beautiful. Go see it in real, because pictures don't do it justice.
Vox what is the background music?
Basically...
*_Pillar men?_*
Ayayayay.
Bring it back
The Gummi Venus de Milo (also referred to as "Gummi Venus"), the rarest gummi of them all, it was carved by gummi artisans who work exclusively in the medium of gummi.
in Greece we say that the stolen things are better... stolen... theres more to the story btw Greek men died to protect the statue yet it was stolen
kinda saddening we might never see the venus de milo fully intact
Isn't there a version somewhere carved by Gummy artisans who work exclusively in the medium of Gummy?
shes Crystal Kehr clay,and read no repeats,said it with a passion. Gothic
“You think your life is hard? I’m a Venus with no arms wearing size 15 Nikes. Men’s size 15 Nikes. Beat that.”
This was Ted Buddy’s favorite sculpture.
APHRODITE OF MELOS NOT VENUS
This is like tracing some master's artwork in your sketch-book while practicing; then tossing it away; only for someone else to dig it up hundreds of years later and view it as a master-piece. It's kind of ironic that this sculpture is so massively renown when it's far past the classical era and, while very well done, was probably made by an apprentice level artist who was studying and not attempting a masterpiece.
Alexandros of Antioch on the Meander River was a brilliant artist, not an apprentice.