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Venus de Milo, Before the Loss

Present day

Venus de Milo shown on a wall

Hover the picture, or tap it on a phone, to see the photograph it was rebuilt from.

Of everything I brought back, this is the photograph that hurts.

The man carving her was Alexandros of Antioch. Almost nobody remembers his name, and she became the most famous statue of a woman ever made. I caught him at work, in the open, with the city behind him, and she still had both arms.

What hangs here is what is left of her, two thousand years later. The arm is gone at the shoulder, and the break is the one place you can see inside.

  • Open edition · 24 × 36 in$49

Printed edge to edge on premium matte paper and shipped rolled in a tube. Canvas and other sizes are quoted separately.

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