France - Paris - Tourists and the Venus di Milo in the Louvre

Tourists admire Aphrodite, otherwise known as the Venus de Milo in the Louvre art museum. The ancient Greek statue is one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture, created sometime between 130 and 100 BC. The Aphrodite (Greek goddess of love and beauty and Venus to the Romans) is a marble sculpture, slightly larger than life size at 203 cm high. The arms and original plinth were lost following the discovery. From an inscription that was on its plinth, it is thought to be the work of (Photo by In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images)