The Aphrodite of Melos is made of marble and
represents vivdly the goddess Aphrodite. This
statue had earned it's name the Venus de Milo
or Venus de Melos, because in 1820, a peasant
had found it on the Greek island of Melos and
it was named after the island where it was found.
For hundreds of years the statue had remained
buried in an underground cavern. On account
of this, the statue had suffered significant
damage and it was found in two parts. Later
it was replaced together and sent to France.
No one knows who created the statue of the
Aphrodite of Melos. It is probably the work of
the Greek artist Alexandros of Antioch. This name
was inscribed on the block of stone on the pedestal
that was later lost, but this is doubted from scholars
because it may not have been the corrected block with
the Venus de Milo, so this had erased the attribution
to Alexandros. Some scholars had attributed the work of
the statue to Praxiteles. It is said it was sculpted.