Title: The Venus of Arles
Category: > Ancient
Description: The Venus of Arles is a 1.94m high sculpture of Venus at the Musée du Louvre. It is in Hymettus marble and dates to the end of the first century BC.

It may be a copy of the Aphrodite of Thespiae by Praxiteles, ordered by the courtesan Phryne. In the second century AD, Pausanias mentioned...

Title: Tyrannosaurus Rex - Cretaceous period
Category: > Dinosaurs
Description: None

Title: Paleolithic wall art in Lascaux
Category: > Other
Description: None

Title: Apollo 11 - July 20, 1969
Category: > Moons
Description: The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. It was the fifth human spaceflight of Project Apollo and the third human voyage to the Moon or Moon orbit. Launched on July 16, 1969, it carried Mission Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and L...

Title: Dragon
Category: > Fantasy
Description: None

Title: Blue Crystal Dragon
Category: > Textures
Description: None

Title: Venus de Milo
Category: > Ancient
Description: Aphrodite of Milos, better known as the Venus de Milo, is an ancient Greek statue and one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture. Created at some time between 130 and 100 BCE, it is believed to depict Aphrodite (Venus to the Romans) the Greek goddess of love and beauty. It is a marble s...

Title: Venus de Milo, Louvre museum
Category: > Ancient
Description: Although the Venus de Milo is widely renowned for the mystery of her missing arms enough evidence remains to prove that the right arm of the goddess was lowered across the torso with the right hand resting on the raised left knee so the sliding drapery wrapped around the hips and legs could be held ...

Title: Aphrodite of Milos
Category: > Ancient
Description: None

Title: the Greek goddess of love and beauty
Category: > Ancient
Description: The Venus de Milo's great fame in the 19th century was not simply the result of its admitted beauty, but also owed much to a major propaganda effort by the French authorities. In 1815, France had returned the Medici Venus to the Italians after it had been looted from Italy by Napoleon Bonaparte. The...

Title: The Venus of Arles
Category: > Ancient
Description: The Venus of Arles is a 1.94m high sculpture of Venus at the Musée du Louvre. It is in Hymettus marble and dates to the end of the first century BC.

It may be a copy of the Aphrodite of Thespiae by Praxiteles, ordered by the courtesan Phryne. In the second century AD, Pausanias mentioned...

Title: The Venus of Arles
Category: > Ancient
Description: The Venus of Arles is a 1.94m high sculpture of Venus at the Musée du Louvre. It is in Hymettus marble and dates to the end of the first century BC.

It may be a copy of the Aphrodite of Thespiae by Praxiteles, ordered by the courtesan Phryne. In the second century AD, Pausanias mentioned...

Title: the Greek goddess of love and beauty
Category: > Ancient
Description: The Venus de Milo's great fame in the 19th century was not simply the result of its admitted beauty, but also owed much to a major propaganda effort by the French authorities. In 1815, France had returned the Medici Venus to the Italians after it had been looted from Italy by Napoleon Bonaparte. The...