The statue was uncovered on April 8, 1820, on Melos, an Aegean island halfway between Crete and the Greek mainland. (The name means Venus of Melos.) The discovery precipitated some frantic ...

Winckelmann was an Enlightenment thinker, and the science-focused ... were preserved with some colors intact, such as a statue of the Greek goddess Artemis. However, according to information ...