Now, the figurine has been shown to the public for the very first time, and it's being called the discovery of the century.

Nude statue of ‘Venus’ by New Orleans’ late Mardi Gras master sculptor Randy Morrison to be installed in Coliseum Square Park ...

Published in 1981 and tracing the reception history from 1500 to 1900 of the ancient Greek and Roman statues that composed the canon of Western antique taste, Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny ...

The birth of AphroditeAphrodite, Greek goddess of love, became Venus in the Roman pantheon. This mural, “The Birth of Venus,” painted before A.D. 79 and found at the House of Venus in the ...

Ancient statues have also been found in trash before in other parts of Europe. In 2023, a Roman-era statuette of Venus was discovered in a trash dump in Rennes, France.

The Halsted A&A Foundation has acquired a 1st-century Roman statue of the ancient Greek goddess Athena. The sculpture, which has remained out of public view for centuries, will be on display ...

On south East Drive, the fountain once contained a statue called "Venus Rising from the Sea," a cast iron statue featuring the Roman goddess Venus rising from the ocean. Credit: (Left) Provided ...

A Roman statue of Venus is paired with a typically expressive female figure with arms outstretched and a head crowned by dynamic ringlets. Above her shines a halo and to her left are pieces of fruit.

In a garden on its campus, a white marble statue of the Roman goddess Venus imported some 150 years ago, stood in the middle of a fountain.

These included earlier triumphal arches, the Colosseum, which dates to the first century A.D., and Hadrian’s Temple of Venus and Roma, Rome’s largest temple.