Why is Venus missing an arm.?

Originally, it had an arm, but I don't know what the reason was, but it was broken when it was found, and it couldn't be recovered.

Her severed arm is very flat, and if it is impossible to break it artificially, it should be that the author has not completed it or has been pursuing mutilated beauty.

Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty, called Venus in Roman mythology, she is in charge of human love, marriage, fertility and the reproduction and growth of all animals and plants. In Greek mythology, legend has it that she was the daughter of Zeus, the father of the gods, and Diony, the goddess of the sea.

Venus was discovered in 1820 in a cave on the Greek island of Miros in the Aegean Sea by a local farmer named Yurgos. Yuergos first discovered a small temple that had collapsed There was a statue of a beautiful woman in the mound of sand in the temple, and he carefully excavated the statue and found that she had lost two arms. Since it was found on the island of Miros, there is another one"Venus of Miro"called.

The work of this statue, which expresses the Greek idea of ideal beauty, should have been perfect. It is a pity that the arms were lost when the statue was built, (when the ancient Greek sculptors carved marble statues, the arms and wrists were generally made separately and then assembled, so when destroyed, the joints were often broken first). It's a fly in the ointment.

Venus was dug by Iorgos, a Greek Milo farmer, in the spring of 1820 while plowing the ground. Venus was unearthed with her right arm hanging down, her hand holding her coat, and her left upper arm stretched over her head, holding an apple. When Louis Brest, the French consul in Milo, learned of this, he rushed to Iorgos' residence and offered to buy the statue with **, and Iolcos agreed.

However, since he did not have enough cash on hand, he had to send Cuvier to Constantinople overnight to report to the French ambassador. After hearing the report, the ambassador immediately ordered his secretary to take a large sum of money and go to Milo overnight to negotiate the purchase of the statue of the goddess, but he did not know that the peasant Iorghos had sold the idol to a Greek merchant and had already shipped it on a ship. Cuvier immediately decided to intercept it by force.

When the British learned of this, they also sent ships to fight for it, and the two sides fought fiercely, and the arms of the sculpture were unfortunately broken in the melee, and since then, Venus has become a goddess with broken arms.

In February 1820, on the island of Miros in the Aegean Sea, a farmer excavated a statue of a woman while preparing the ground next to an ancient tomb. She was divided into two parts, the upper and the lower, and scattered along with the pedestal with the name inscribed on it, the wrist holding the apple, and other fragments, and so on, scattered under the nearby fields. The farmer, who had learned that they were valuable, immediately buried them and reported them to the French consul on the island.

The consul paid a small deposit and informed the French ambassador who was then based in Constantinople. At about the same time, a French naval non-commissioned officer named Gul Diimon Durville, who was surveying in the Aegean Sea, expressed greater concern. This is a lover of Greek art, who, after looking at the fragments of these statues, thought that they were a whole, and was the first to conclude that it was the statue of Venus.

So he immediately told the farmer that France had decided to buy her and that he would not have to make any more noise. He then rushed to Constantinople and presented the details to the Great Commission, prompting the ambassador to make up his mind and send someone to make a deal. Unexpectedly, the island's elders intervened in the interests of the island, and a meeting was held to order the farmer to sell the statue to a Greek official in Turkey, and when the French arrived on the island, it was already time for the statue to be shipped.

Seeing this, they almost used force and ordered the French ships to be ready for action at any time. Suddenly, the battle clouds on the Aegean Sea were thick. Coincidentally, a storm broke the siege.

It delayed the departure of the Turkish ships and bought the French envoys the opportunity to mediate, and they finally transferred the statue to the French ship. Later, he gave money to the island, thus obtaining an oath from the island to renounce the statue. The statue arrived in Paris, but due to various political and personnel reasons, it was not until March 2, 1821, when King Louis XVIII officially accepted the gift.

From this day on, she became the property of the French state. At that time, it was registered as "Venus Found in Miró in the Greek Islands" and was displayed in a special exhibition room of the Louvre, which is called the three treasures of the Louvre, along with the smile of the Mona Lisa and the portrait of the goddess of victory.

As one of the three treasures of the Louvre, Venus's severed arm is like the smile of the Mona Lisa, and the reason why it is the most beautiful is because what the severed arm originally looked like gives people infinite room for reverie, just as people guess why the Mona Lisa is smiling. When I first took the art design class, the teacher probably explained it like this.

My personal understanding, from a philosophical point of view, is the best combination of the fun of guessing and the mental space (what you want her to be, she is).

The reasons for the damage to any cultural relics are always many, but it is nothing more than a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, hehe......