Venus de Milo

Venus de Milo Takes a Parisian Spin: Iconic Statue Heads to National Assembly for Olympic Games Promotion

Venus de Milo leaves the Louvre Museum and goes to the French National Assembly with 6 representations of the famous…

April 10, 2024

Four of the finest Ancient Greek sculptures kept in museums away from their motherland

The movement to return the Parthenon marbles to their motherland was started in the 1980s. But it is not just the…

November 7, 2023

On This Day April 8 1820: The Venus (Aphrodite) de Milo, maybe the most recognizable of all ancient Greek statues was found

The Venus (Aphrodite) de Milo, maybe the most recognizable of all ancient Greek statues was found. (Αφροδίτη της Μήλου)A unique…

April 9, 2023

Four of the finest Ancient Greek sculptures are kept in museums away from their motherland

The movement to return the Parthenon marbles to their motherland was started in the 1980s. But it is not just the…

November 7, 2022

Four of the finest Ancient Greek sculptures kept in museums away from their motherland

The movement to return the Parthenon marbles to their motherland was started in the 1980s. But it is not just the…

November 7, 2021

France celebrates the birth of Modern Greece with Louvre exhibition

To mark the bicentenary anniversary in 2021 of the independence of Greece and the 200th anniversary of the arrival of…

September 21, 2021

Louvre Holds Stolen Treasures 200 Greeks Died Trying to Protect

While much has been made for decades about Greece’s fruitless quest to have the British Museum return the stolen Parthenon…

June 3, 2021

Four of the finest Ancient Greek sculptures kept in museums away from their motherland

The movement to return the Parthenon marbles to their motherland was started in the 1980s. But it is not just the…

November 7, 2020

Greek brand SOPHIA now being sold at the Louvre and British Museums

The love for Greek cultural heritage and a desire to share it with the whole world led to the creation…

October 17, 2020

The Countless Aspects of Greek Beauty

  “Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.” - Dante Alighieri Beauty is in the eye…

October 10, 2018

Greece launches bid to win back Venus de Milo from Louvre

Greece has just launched a bid to win back the Venus de Milo, which currently resides at the Louvre in…

December 1, 2016
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