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There are many beautiful and moving legends in ancient Greek mythology, one of which is about Venus, the God of love. Venus is so beautiful that she is in charge of both the reproduction of animals and plants and the love of human beings. Western artists once regarded her as an image model of female beauty.

Discovery of "Broken Arm Venus"

One day in April 1820, farmer Ivogaus took his son to farm on Minos Island in the Aegean Sea. Just as they were about to eradicate a bush, they suddenly found a large cave. They entered the cave curiously, and a marble statue of an exquisite semi-naked woman appeared in front of them. This is the "Broken Arm Venus" image. When Louis Blaise, the French consul in Greece, learned the news, he immediately reported it to the French Minister Marquis Libier. The Marquis bought the statue from Ivogaus for 25,000 francs and smuggled it onto a French warship to France. The statue is now displayed in the famous Louvre Museum of Art in Paris, France, and has become one of the treasures of the Louvre.

The Birth of Venus

The Mystery of Venus

The discovery of the Broken Arm Goddess raised a series of questions. Who is she? Who is her producer? Where is her arm? What was her posture before she broke it?

There is a saying about the mystery of the author of Venus and the origin of the name of Venus: in the myths and legends of the ancient Greeks, there was a goddess specializing in the duty of "beauty" and "love" - Aphrodite. When the goddess of beauty and love came to ancient Rome, the Romans called her Venus. The face of the Broken Arm Venus is similar to the head of the famous Greek sculptor Prachandles in the 4th century B.C.'Venus of Knydess', so many people conclude that the creator of the statue is Prachandles.

However, a considerable number of people also believe that such a beautiful "Broken Arm Venus" should have been completed by the students of Phidias or Phidias, the Greater Sculptor of Ancient Greece, in the 5th century BC. Because the style of the works belongs to that era. To this day, the relatively prevalent view is that it was a Greek work before the 1st century B.C. and there is another view that it is only a reproduction, a copy of an original work in the 4th century B.C., but the original has disappeared. In a word, there are different opinions about the "Broken Arm Goddess".

The Mystery of Broken Arm

In the cave where the statue was found, fragments of arms were found. But is it a remnant of the statue? Some people think it is not, others think it is different. Some archaeologists and artists have tried to repair the arms of the goddess. People have different opinions on the shape and posture of Venus'original arm. German archaeologist Falto Wengura envisioned that the goddess's left hand was stretched forward, her arm was placed on a pillar, and she held a golden apple in her palm, and her right hand was hanging down and holding the skirt that had fallen down her lower abdomen.

Another popular idea is that she stretches her left hand forward, holds a shield, and her right hand hangs slightly downward, but does not hold the clothes. People even repaired the broken arms of the God of beauty according to their own guesses. However, after installing the arm, people always feel that it is not natural, reasonable, and uncoordinated. It is not as beautiful as when the arm is broken. So far, people still like this "broken arm goddess". "Broken Arm" has covered the sculpture with a mysterious color, but also added to her incomplete beauty.

People have been trying to solve the mystery of "broken arm" with infinite imagination, but maybe there will never be an answer to this mystery.