Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Sculpture before 1600 ------- Vénus de Milo


            The Venus de Milo is an ancient Greek statue and one of the most famous works of sculpture. It is Greek mythology, the goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite, Roman mythology and the matching of the goddess Venus. Statue is the height of 203cm, combined by two pieces of marble mosaics, and the joint of two pieces of marble is very clever, which is between the exposed body parts and the areas nearby wrapped towels. It may have been made in the first 130 years or so. A Milo farmer named Iolcus found it in Milos Island in 1820. He was trying to hide this statue but later a Turkish officer found it. At that time a French ambassador to Turkey bought it and now the statue is at the Louvre in Paris.

            The statue of Venus is universally known as the perfect female human body model. It’s because her body completely meets the physical beauty of the golden ratio. The golden section proportion relationship is 1:1. 618. Put it into a human body, the human body will be divided into two parts, the cut-off point is located right in the belly button. Symmetry of the human body ratio is 1:1. 618 too. Due to the proportion is close to 8:5 or 5:3, and the body length is 8 times longer than a head, so the total length can be divided into three sections: head, neck down to the navel and navel to feet. The three parts that according to the head as a benchmark divided the whole body into 1:3:5, which is the standard rules of body beauty. The modeling of Venus charm lies in the fact that no matter look from which angle, she is accord with the human body golden ratio, so she can go beyond the times and become the symbol of perfect female beauty.

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