{"version":2,"name":"Venus de Milo by Maker unknown","paintingName":"Venus de Milo","artist":"Maker unknown","date":"Not recorded in supplied sources","artistProfile":{"artistName":"Maker unknown","name":"Maker unknown","description":"Biographical details and a verified portrait have not yet been recorded for this attribution.","kind":"unknown","birthDate":null,"deathDate":null,"activeDates":null,"nationality":null,"birthPlace":null,"deathPlace":null,"attributionNote":null,"portrait":null,"sources":[]},"artistUrl":null,"medium":"Not recorded in supplied sources","dimensions":"Not recorded in supplied sources","location":"Louvre, Paris, France","period":"Not recorded in supplied sources","culture":"Not recorded in supplied sources","canonicalUrl":"https://www.artifact-archive.com/archive/venus-de-milo-maker-unknown","imageUrl":"https://www.artifact-archive.com/print-assets/18e4319a5a55e8300e33fe31c061337a82cb65e734e778d1e7a641e7e8247e94-preview.jpg","highestResolutionImageUrl":"https://www.artifact-archive.com/print-assets/18e4319a5a55e8300e33fe31c061337a82cb65e734e778d1e7a641e7e8247e94.png","imageTitle":"Venus de Milo by Maker unknown | High-resolution image","imageRights":null,"publishedUtc":"2026-10-16T22:16:51.1763191+00:00","summary":"A gallery reading of the Venus de Milo as recorded in a 2013 photograph taken in the Louvre, Paris. The supplied evidence establishes the object's identity and its museum setting; it does not establish the maker, date, material or dimensions, so this account stays with what the photograph shows and what the record documents.","text":"This is the Venus de Milo, an ancient statue of a female figure, shown here in the Louvre in Paris.\n\nThe photograph comes from a 2013 visit by a Wikimedia Commons contributor, and the file record identifies the object by that name and places it in that museum.\n\nThe photograph is a front right view, and the file is categorised that way.\n\nThat angle shows the body turned slightly, with the torso twisting and the surface catching light against a dark background.\n\nThe uploaded record describes the image simply as the Venus de Milo in Paris, dated the second of September 2013.\n\nIt tells us when the photograph was made and where the statue stood for the camera, not when the statue itself was carved.\n\nSo the picture is best understood as a modern photographic record of a much older object.\n\nIt documents a particular viewpoint and lighting, and those choices shape how we read the figure's pose and surface.\n\nWhat the supplied evidence firmly establishes is narrow and clear: the object is the Venus de Milo, and the photograph places it in the Louvre in Paris.\n\nFor its maker, date, material and dimensions, the record leaves the question open, and in this gallery reading that gap is part of the honest account.","passages":[{"id":"passage-1","role":"hook","evidence":"documented","text":"This is the Venus de Milo, an ancient statue of a female figure, shown here in the Louvre in Paris.\n\nThe photograph comes from a 2013 visit by a Wikimedia Commons contributor, and the file record identifies the object by that name and places it in that museum.","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"passage-2","role":"looking","evidence":"observation","text":"The photograph is a front right view, and the file is categorised that way.\n\nThat angle shows the body turned slightly, with the torso twisting and the surface catching light against a dark background.","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"passage-3","role":"context","evidence":"documented","text":"The uploaded record describes the image simply as the Venus de Milo in Paris, dated the second of September 2013.\n\nIt tells us when the photograph was made and where the statue stood for the camera, not when the statue itself was carved.","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"passage-4","role":"turn","evidence":"interpretation","text":"So the picture is best understood as a modern photographic record of a much older object.\n\nIt documents a particular viewpoint and lighting, and those choices shape how we read the figure's pose and surface.","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"passage-5","role":"closing","evidence":"documented","text":"What the supplied evidence firmly establishes is narrow and clear: the object is the Venus de Milo, and the photograph places it in the Louvre in Paris.\n\nFor its maker, date, material and dimensions, the record leaves the question open, and in this gallery reading that gap is part of the honest account.","sourceIds":["source-1"]}],"sources":[{"id":"source-1","title":"Wikimedia Commons: Venus de Milo","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venus_de_Milo,_Paris_2_September_2013_002.jpg","publisher":"Wikimedia Commons","sourceType":"secondary","authors":["Tom King"],"publicationYear":2013,"publicationTitle":"File: Venus de Milo, Paris 2 September 2013 002.jpg","language":"English","annotation":"Wikimedia Commons file page with a photograph of the Venus de Milo at the Louvre, including uploader credit, licence, and camera metadata. Used here to verify the object identification and present location only.","accessStatus":"open_access","consultationStatus":"partially_consulted","relevance":"artwork"},{"id":"book-ol24869384m","title":"Disarmed: the story of the Venus de Milo","url":"https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24869384M","publisher":"Alfred A. Knopf","sourceType":"book","authors":["Gregory Curtis"],"publicationYear":2003,"edition":"1st ed.","isbn":"9780375415234","annotation":"Recorded under Gregory Curtis with the title Disarmed, this candidate carries explicit subject headings for the artwork and its setting: Venus de Milo, Aphrodite von Melos, Aphrodite (Greek deity), Musee du Louvre (Paris), Musee du Louvre, La Venus de Milo (sculpture), Ancient Marble sculpture, Greek Marble sculpture, and Sculpture en marbre grecque. Those subjects indicate an object specific study of the statue, its material and its museum context, making it directly pertinent to the named artwork rather than a broad artist survey. Note that this is a distinct catalogue record from the other Curtis entry, OL8362677M, which lists no subjects at all and therefore cannot be linked to the statue on the evidence recorded.","consultationStatus":"not_yet_consulted"},{"id":"book-ol8840148m","title":"La Vénus de Milo : Un mythe","url":"https://openlibrary.org/books/OL8840148M","publisher":"Gallimard","sourceType":"book","authors":["Dimitri Salmon"],"publicationYear":2000,"isbn":"9782070535316","annotation":"La Venus de Milo by Dimitri Salmon is a title wholly devoted to the named artwork, so it is an on topic candidate for the statue. 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Methodology: Broad conservative working range generated for manual review. The supplied excerpts identify the object as the Venus de Milo, an ancient marble statue of a female figure, photographed at the Louvre in Paris, France. The excerpts do not establish maker, date, medium, dimensions, accession information, acquisition history, or formal valuation data. Because the work is one of the most prominent ancient sculptures held in a major encyclopedic museum and is treated in the supplied sources as a unique cultural artifact rather than as a market commodity, a conventional comparable-sales or replacement-cost calculation is not supportable from the supplied material. The range is therefore deliberately wide and low-confidence, intended only to bracket the order of magnitude for a hypothetical total-loss or institutional indemnity review by a qualified specialist. It does not rely on comparable sales, private insurance records, or any unpublished valuation source. Qualification: This is a model-generated working insurance range for manual review only. It is not an official insurance value, appraisal, auction result, or sale price. The supplied sources confirm only the identity and present location of the object and do not provide sufficient information for a professional valuation. Actual insurance values for objects of this status are typically handled through institutional indemnity, sovereign immunity, or bespoke risk-transfer agreements rather than open-market valuation.","kind":"calculated_insurance","sourceIds":["source-1"]}]}],"archiveResearch":{"catalogueFields":[{"id":"artwork-title","label":"Title","value":"Venus de Milo","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"artist","label":"Artist or attribution","value":"Maker unknown","sourceIds":[]},{"id":"current-location","label":"Current collection or location","value":"Louvre, Paris, France","sourceIds":[]},{"id":"subject-summary","label":"Depicted subject","value":"The supplied sources identify and depict the Venus de Milo, an ancient marble statue of a female figure, photographed in the Louvre in Paris. The exact date, medium, maker, and subject interpretation are not established by the supplied excerpts.","sourceIds":[]}],"claims":[{"id":"identity-001","sectionId":"identity","text":"The source consulted for this account identifies the depicted artifact as the Venus de Milo. That identification is the one firm object-level claim the evidence carries: the record names the artifact, and nothing further about its production is asserted in the supplied excerpts. The same source places the work at the Louvre in Paris, France, so the identification and the present location are established together, while questions of origin remain outside what the evidence states.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Catalogue identification","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Structured data, depicts: Venus de Milo"}]},{"id":"identity-002","sectionId":"identity","text":"The supplied excerpts do not record the maker, date, medium, dimensions, or accession number of the Venus de Milo. That absence is itself part of the catalogue record. It means the object cannot here be assigned a sculptor, a carving date, a stone type, a measurement, or a museum inventory number, and any such attribution would have to come from sources not supplied. What the evidence distinguishes is the date of the photograph, 2 September 2013, from the date of the object, which is left unrecorded. The catalogue therefore separates two chronologies: the moment of photographic capture and the much earlier moment of the statue's making, which the evidence does not fix.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Catalogue identification","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Whole document"}]},{"id":"archive-6cb563531f0ac9b69a7b","sectionId":"identity","text":"Read together, the units define a narrow but useful evidentiary base. The object is identified as the Venus de Milo and located at the Louvre; the image is dated 2 September 2013 and credited to a named uploader with a stated license; and the object's maker, date, material, dimensions, and accession number are simply not in the record. Within a larger history of art and material culture, this asymmetry matters: the surviving documentation here documents modern photographic access to a celebrated ancient work far more fully than it documents the work's own creation, so the object's cultural presence in the present is better evidenced than its origins. Treating the gap as part of the honest account, rather than filling it from outside the evidence, keeps the identification secure and the attributional claims proportionate to what is actually recorded.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The photographic record","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Structured data, depicts: Venus de Milo"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Whole document"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"File history and Structured data, author name string"}]},{"id":"collection-001","sectionId":"collection","text":"The evidence available for this section is a single photographic record rather than a catalogue entry or museum publication. A Wikimedia Commons file page presents a photograph whose title and description identify the subject as the Venus de Milo, and the same record states that the object is at the Louvre in Paris, France. The source is therefore a modern record of display: it establishes the identity of the object shown and the institution in which it stood when photographed, and nothing further about the object itself. The evidence explicitly notes that its excerpts do not record the maker, date, medium, dimensions, or accession number of the Venus de Milo, so those basic facts about the sculpture remain outside what this unit can support.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The photographic record and what it can establish","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Description: English: Lourve, Paris"}]},{"id":"collection-001-2","sectionId":"collection","text":"The Commons file documents its own making in some detail. The photograph was created by Wikimedia Commons user Tom King, credited as T2King0, and uploaded on 27 September 2013 under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. The image file is titled and described as Venus de Milo, Paris, dated 2 September 2013, so the capture date and the upload date differ by several weeks. Technical metadata records the camera as a Canon EOS 450D, with an exposure time of 0.033333333333333 second, f-number 5.6, ISO speed 250, and a focal length of 49 millimetres. These details describe the conditions under which the photograph was produced, not the conditions under which the sculpture was made or displayed.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The photographic record and what it can establish","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Description: English: Lourve, Paris"}]},{"id":"collection-001-3","sectionId":"collection","text":"The file page places the photograph in two categories, Front right views of the Venus de Milo and Venus de Milo with black background. Those categories describe the photographic record: they fix the viewing angle and note the dark setting against which the figure appears. They do not establish anything about the object's original setting or its history of display. Read together with the camera settings and the stated date, they allow the photograph to be understood as a deliberate, dated front right view made in 2013, and they mark the limits of what the unit documents, which is the appearance of the object from one chosen position on one occasion.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The photographic record and what it can establish","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Description: English: Lourve, Paris"}]},{"id":"visual-001","sectionId":"visual-evidence","text":"The visual record under discussion is a photograph rather than the sculpture itself: the supplied image file is titled and described as Venus de Milo, Paris, and dated 2 September 2013. That title fixes the subject by the conventional name of the object and locates the view in Paris, but it is the record of a viewing occasion rather than a statement about the statue's making. The source identifies the depicted artifact as the Venus de Milo and records it at the Louvre in Paris, France. Read together, these details establish the identification of the figure and its present setting; they do not carry information about when, by whom, or in what material the sculpture was produced.","kind":"observation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The photograph as the primary visual document","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Description"}]},{"id":"archive-6488ec50f7169c2c7761","sectionId":"reception","text":"The reception history documented in the supplied evidence begins not with the statue's creation but with its modern photographic reproduction. The Commons file records a photograph made on 2 September 2013, titled and described simply as \"Venus de Milo, Paris,\" which places the already-famous object in the Louvre. The file page itself is the primary vehicle of this stage of reception: it is a digital reproduction whose descriptive metadata, rather than any curatorial text, frames the statue for a global online audience. The image was created by Wikimedia Commons user Tom King (T2King0), who uploaded it on 27 September 2013 under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. This licensing choice matters to reception history because it makes the photograph legally reusable and adaptable by others, extending the statue's circulation beyond the museum and beyond the photographer while the attribution requirement preserves King's role as the maker of this particular view.","kind":"observation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Modern Photographic Reproduction","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Categories"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Description"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"File history and Structured data, author name string"}]},{"id":"archive-5ea9bae7b3fc08c8c9c7","sectionId":"reception","text":"The Commons file places the photograph in two categories: \"Front right views of the Venus de Milo\" and \"Venus de Milo with black background.\" These categories describe the photograph's format and viewpoint, not the sculpture's ancient display. They also show how a modern archive organizes reception: the same statue is indexed by angle and by visual presentation, so that a viewer browsing the category encounters the Venus de Milo as a set of repeatable photographic conventions. The \"black background\" category records a staging decision that isolates the pale figure and heightens the contrast of its surface, while the \"front right\" category records a viewing position relative to the statue. Together they demonstrate that by 2013 the statue's public image was being managed through categorized, searchable file metadata, a form of reception quite different from earlier museum display or print reproduction.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Modern Photographic Reproduction","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Categories"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Description"}]},{"id":"archive-6488ec50f7169c2c7761-2","sectionId":"reception","text":"The photographic record is deliberately narrow in what it establishes about the object itself. The image file is titled and described as \"Venus de Milo, Paris\" and dated 2 September 2013; it documents a particular 2013 visit and viewpoint rather than the statue's origin. The supplied excerpts do not record the maker, date, medium, dimensions, or accession number of the Venus de Milo, so the photograph cannot be used to date the carving or to describe its material. The Commons file does, however, record the capture conditions of the photograph: a Canon EOS 450D, exposure time 0.033333333333333 second, f-number 5.6, ISO speed 250, and focal length 49 millimetre. These technical details belong to the photograph's own making, not to the ancient sculpture, and they show how precisely a modern reception document can describe its own conditions while leaving the object's creation undocumented in this evidence set.","kind":"observation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The Limits of Photographic Evidence","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Description"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"File history and Structured data, author name string"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Categories"}]},{"id":"provenance-001","sectionId":"provenance","text":"The provenance documentation supplied for this file concerns the modern photographic record rather than the ancient object it depicts. The photograph of the Venus de Milo was created by Wikimedia Commons user Tom King, credited under the account name T2King0, and uploaded on 27 September 2013 under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. That chain of custody is short and fully recorded: a named contributor, a stated upload date, and an explicit licensing instrument. It establishes the conditions under which the image entered the Commons repository and can be reused, nothing about the statue's own history of ownership.","kind":"provenance","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The Modern Record","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"File history and Structured data, author name string"}]},{"id":"archive-e8dfcbb90f7ec5ad6838","sectionId":"provenance","text":"Because the evidence does not record the maker, date, medium, dimensions, or accession number of the Venus de Milo, the statue's ownership before 2013 remains an unrecorded interval in this material. The supplied source places the object at the Louvre in Paris, which is a documented present location, not a documented acquisition history. The distinction matters for provenance research: an unrecorded interval is a gap in the surviving documentation, whereas a proven change of ownership requires a dated instrument, sale, or transfer. On the present evidence, no such instrument exists for the statue, and the account should say so rather than supply a sequence the sources do not support. The same file, through its categories, provides the only further documented classification: the photograph is grouped under Front right views of the Venus de Milo and Venus de Milo with black background, terms that describe the image's viewpoint and setting rather than the object's legal or institutional custody.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The Modern Record","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"File history and Structured data, author name string"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Categories"}]},{"id":"archive-5a20eabd174f8ad718df","sectionId":"technical-analysis","text":"The supplied evidence for this object begins with a single image file rather than with the sculpture itself, and the file carries its own capture history. The photograph is titled and described as Venus de Milo, Paris, dated 2 September 2013, and was created by Wikimedia Commons user Tom King (T2King0), uploading it on 27 September 2013 under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. The technical record attached to the file specifies capture with a Canon EOS 450D, an exposure time of 0.033333333333333 second, an f-number of 5.6, ISO speed 250, and a focal length of 49 millimetre. These values describe the circumstances of the photograph, not the sculpture: they establish a hand-held or at least non-institutional camera body, a moderately stopped-down aperture, a moderate sensitivity, and a standard-to-short-telephoto field of view. Read together, they indicate that this is a documentary photograph made by a visiting contributor rather than a measured, archival or scientific record of the object, which matters because the evidentiary weight of everything visible in the image depends on that distinction.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The photographic record","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Structured data"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Description"}]},{"id":"archive-5a20eabd174f8ad718df-2","sectionId":"technical-analysis","text":"The same file page places the photograph in two categories, Front right views of the Venus de Milo and Venus de Milo with black background, and the source annotation confirms the file page shows the statue at the Louvre in Paris. The front right viewpoint and the dark background are therefore not incidental qualities of a casual snapshot but the catalogued, deliberate framing of the image: the angle presents the figure turned slightly, and the black ground isolates the lit surface from any museum context. This distinction between image and object is important for technical description, because the tonal separation and the light catching the surface in the photograph arise from the photographer's viewpoint and lighting choices, not from properties the evidence attributes to the sculpture's material or finish. The source also states that the supplied excerpts do not record the maker, date, medium, dimensions, or accession number of the Venus de Milo, so the file can be used to verify the object's identification and present location only, and the technical account must not slide from what the photograph shows to claims about how or when the statue was carved.","kind":"observation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The photographic record","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Structured data"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Description"}]},{"id":"valuation-calculated-insurance","sectionId":"values","text":"The supplied record for this object supports only a narrow set of claims, and the working valuation built on it must be read against that narrowness. The source identifies the depicted artifact as the Venus de Milo and records it at the Louvre in Paris, France, and the image file itself is titled and described as Venus de Milo, Paris, dated 2 September 2013. Beyond identity and present location, the excerpts do not record the maker, date, medium, dimensions, or accession number of the Venus de Milo. The Commons file is further placed in the categories Front right views of the Venus de Milo and Venus de Milo with black background, which describes the photographic record rather than the sculpture's production. Any statement about the object's value therefore has to begin from what the evidence does not contain.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The evidentiary base","citations":[]},{"id":"valuation-calculated-insurance-2","sectionId":"values","text":"The working insurance estimate recorded here is a range of US$500M to US$1.5B, entered as a working calculation generated 2026-10-16. Its stated methodology is a broad conservative working range generated for manual review. The document explicitly refuses the usual machinery of valuation: because the work is one of the most prominent ancient sculptures held in a major encyclopedic museum and is treated in the supplied sources as a unique cultural artifact rather than as a market commodity, a conventional comparable-sales or replacement-cost calculation is not supportable from the supplied material. The range is described as deliberately wide and low-confidence, intended only to bracket the order of magnitude for a hypothetical total-loss or institutional indemnity review by a qualified specialist, and it does not rely on comparable sales, private insurance records, or any unpublished valuation source. The qualification is stated plainly: this is a model-generated working insurance range for manual review only, not an official insurance value, appraisal, auction result, or sale price.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The working estimate and its limits","citations":[]},{"id":"valuation-calculated-insurance-3","sectionId":"values","text":"The document also notes that actual insurance values for objects of this status are typically handled through institutional indemnity, sovereign immunity, or bespoke risk-transfer agreements rather than open-market valuation. That observation explains why the figure functions here less as a price than as a placeholder for a category of risk that ordinary art-market instruments are not designed to carry. It is a claim about institutional practice, attributed to the valuation document, and it is the reason the range is presented as an order-of-magnitude bracket rather than a point estimate. Reading the two together, the calculation is best understood as a procedural artifact of the review process, not as evidence about the sculpture's market position.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The working estimate and its limits","citations":[]}],"gaps":[],"timeline":[{"id":"timeline-6ca5e4d2a0b2ce4da0fd","date":"27 September 2013","text":"A photograph of the Venus de Milo taken by Wikimedia Commons user Tom King (T2King0) was uploaded under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.","sourceIds":["source-1"],"citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"File history and Structured data, author name string"}]}],"coverage":{"scope":"This record brings together the supplied object-specific evidence and literature. 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Those subjects indicate an object specific study of the statue, its material and its museum context, making it directly pertinent to the named artwork rather than a broad artist survey. Note that this is a distinct catalogue record from the other Curtis entry, OL8362677M, which lists no subjects at all and therefore cannot be linked to the statue on the evidence recorded.","coverUrl":"https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6861909-M.jpg?default=false","coverSourceUrl":"https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24869384M","coverCredit":"Open Library"},{"sourceId":"book-ol8840148m","relevance":"La Venus de Milo by Dimitri Salmon is a title wholly devoted to the named artwork, so it is an on topic candidate for the statue. 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