MANIC MONDAY - MARBLES

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Pookie with a marble imitation statue !

When I saw the word "marble" for Manic Monday I first thought to find somebody who has lost all his marbles. Then the so well known game with glass marbles which each child in the world has played came into my mind and all the marble collectors who are in real competition with each other.

But then I thought about the real marble which is a metamorphic rock resulting from the metamorphism of limestone and that this one is very much used in sculpture.

The most famous sculpture is probably the Venus de Milo, which is on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris.The statue dates to about 130–90 BC. The statue has no arms anymore but two fragments of a left arm and a left hand with an apple were found near the statue in the same niche and are thought to be remnants of its arms. After the statue was found, numerous attempts were made to reconstruct its pose, though it was never restored. The statue was discovered in 1820 inside a buried niche within the ancient city ruins of Milos in Greece.

The roman Venus is the same godess as Aphrodite in the greek mythology. Apparently she had no childhood: in every image and each reference she is born adult, nubile, and very beautiful. Even though she was a godess, she had a quite "normal" life. She was one of the few gods who was actually married and was frequently unfaithful to her husband. But in roman times it was probably normal too. For some women even today. In many of the late anecdotal myths she was described as vain, ill-tempered and easily offended.

Even today this marble sculpture is considered as the most beautiful woman body ever represented despite the fact that today skeleton like models are in fashion. For sculptors it is very good, it is much cheaper and goes quicker because they don't need to use much marble and have less work with the curves.