Venus de Milo refers to an ancient statue commonly thought to represent Aphrodite. It is housed now in Paris at the Louvre. It was carved from marble by Alexandros, a sculptor of Antioch on the Maeander River about 150 BC.  It was found in pieces on the Aegean island of Melos on April 8, 1820, and was subsequently presented to Louis XVIII,who then donated it to the Louvre in 1821.

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