In what city is the Venus de Milo statue displayed?
Venus de Milo plinth. In 1871, during the Paris Commune uprising, many public buildings were burned. The Venus de Milo statue was secreted out of the Louvre Museum in an oak crate and hidden in the basement of the Prefecture of Police. Though the Prefecture was burned, the statue survived undamaged. In 1920, sculptor Robert Ingersoll Aitken created a stir when he criticized the display, lighting, and placement of the statue of Venus de Milo in the museum. In the autumn of 1939, the Venus was packed for removal from the Louvre in anticipation of the outbreak of war. Scenery trucks from the
Venus de Milo the German magazine "Focus" featured a doctored image of this Venus giving Europe the middle finger, which resulted in a defamation lawsuit against the journalists and the publication. They were found not guilty by the Greek court. A plot to steal the statue is at the center of the 1966 spoof spy film "The Last of the Secret Agents?", starring Marty Allen and Steve Rossi. In "The Simpsons" episode "Homer Badman", a "Gummi Venus de Milo" parodies the statue. Venus de Milo The Aphrodite of Milos (, "Aphroditi tis Milou"), better but mistakenly known as the Venus de Milo, is