Been to Greece where there are so many representations of Aphrodite. Been to the Louvre in Paris where so many sculptures are on display.

Cameron

I'm with Cameron, knew her name was Aphrodite but had to look up how to spell Louvre, so I guess I'll lose stars on this one.
Annette

A friend of mine found a concrete statue -- not Venus, an angel with her wings broken off -- at the dump. She had part of an arm missing, and her head was broken off. They repaired the head, and decided that if no arms was good enough for Venus/Aphrodite, a missing hand just added charm to their pretty garden statue.

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ThinMan's thunderstorms of yesterday rolling in here, putting an end to a couple days of gloriously cool and un-humid weather.

Trivia: Ditto Cameron & Annette. I, too, have had good fortune to see Ms. de Milo "in the flesh" (and Mona is a lot smaller than I expected). Does she have those dimples? Well, weren't they named for her?

N, your friend's an angel for rescuing that statue and giving it new life.

I'd never before noticed the disconnect between a Greek statue with a Roman name. Makes me think about how the French ended up with these treasures.
Ana

I'm wondering how the French kept those treasures, considering the looting during WWII?! The ladies, are as usual, of course, correct.

It seems to me those dimples become more pronounced with age. I don't recall having them in the days, when I wore bikinis. But I have them now! Venus must be a younger woman.

Lorna

If you wonder how the French got all that stuff for the Louvre, have you ever thought about the British Museum? Or, the Vatican Museum! Both are loaded with artifacts from "other places" than where they are on display.

All those explorers were busy carting stuff back home!

The trick to seeing the Mona Lisa (in the Louvre) up close without a crowd is to have a museum pass. About 30 minutes before closing, go straight in and head to the Mona lisa. Everyone else is on their way out and you get the painting mostly to yourself. Then, go back the next day to see everything else.

Cameron

Oh sigh - I can't believe TM hasn't resolved this yet!!! lol. They were on strike at the Louvre when I got to Paris - barely got to see Versialles, but oh my...

I bow to the greater minds above.

Nancy.

It looks like Cameron, Annette, Ana, and Lorna are our well-traveled and/or well-educated winners today.

for you!!

I don't know about the rest of the treasures in the Louvre, but I know how they got the Venus de Milo. They bought her, but not without a tussle with some bad guys in which she had her arms broken off.

Apparently there are other Venus/Aphrodite statues here and there, done by various sculptors of old. Maybe some of them have dimples?

Thanks for playing trivia this week, y'all.

ThinMan