Q 01/05

Which goddess is the Venus de Milo believed to depict?

A) Persephone

B) Athena

C) Aphrodite

D) Demeter

Answer · why

C) Aphrodite

Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, is the usual identification: Venus is simply her Roman name, and the sensual, half-naked figure suits her better...

Q 02/05

Milos, where the Venus de Milo was found, lies in which sea?

A) Ionian Sea

B) Aegean Sea

C) Adriatic Sea

D) Tyrrhenian Sea

Answer · why

B) Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea island was a port of call for a French navy ship in 1820, and an ensign who went ashore to hunt antiquities was on hand when the statue...

Q 03/05

The Venus de Milo reached the Louvre soon after France returned art seized by which ruler?

A) Louis XIV

B) Napoleon

C) Charlemagne

D) Francis I

Answer · why

B) Napoleon

Napoleon had filled the Louvre with art seized on his conquests, and prized pieces went home after his fall in 1815, so France hailed the newly found ...

Q 04/05

Art historians now assign the Venus de Milo to which period of Greek art?

A) Archaic

B) Geometric

C) Hellenistic

D) Mycenaean

Answer · why

C) Hellenistic

Hellenistic is the modern verdict: she was carved around the second century BC, late in the story of Greek art, though her idealised face deliberately...

Q 05/05

The Venus de Milo is carved from which marble, named after a Greek island?

A) Carrara

B) Thasian

C) Pentelic

D) Parian

Answer · why

D) Parian

Parian marble was quarried on the Greek island of Paros; the Louvre found that a marble hand dug up beside her is carved from the same stone, one reas...