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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Armless


Venus de Milo? Why do artists create sculptures of armless individuals. Even aphrodite (Venus) had arms. However when a sculpture has been around since 90BCE (wiki) it is understood that a few pieces can go missing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_de_Milo
Posted by sinisterhaley at 9:06 AM

1 comment:

El Serracho! said...

so the statues can never make them back. that's why.

11:07 AM

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