Venus de Milo

The Venus de Milo is an ancient Greek statue and one of the most famous pieces of ancient Greek sculpture. It is believed to depict Aphrodite (called Venus by the Romans), the Greek goddess of love and beauty

Venus de Milo in popular culture

• The band Television dedicated the song Venus on the album Marquee Moon to the statue.
• In the farcical movie Carry on Cleo (1964) the statue loses its arms when hit by swords in a botched assassination of Julius Caesar.
• The fictional rock group Spinal Tap has an album called Intravenus de Milo.
• In episode 2F06 ("Homer Bad Man") of the TV show The Simpsons, Homer attends a candy convention and observes a gummi figurine lying in glass case. The proprietor informs him that the gummi is "the rarest gummi of them all, the gummi Venus de Milo, carved by gummi artisans who work exclusively in the medium of gummi", upon which Marge requests that they stop saying "gummi" so much. Homer proceeds to steal the Gummi Venus de Milo. The green gummi was drawn as a fairly accurate replica of the actual sculpture.
• The American humorist Will Rogers once sent his young niece a postcard of the Venus de Milo with the message: "See what will happen to you if you don't stop biting your fingernails."
• In episode 28 of popular Japanese anime GetBackers Gingi and Ban search for the missing arms of Venus de Milo.
• In the popular anime Sailor Moon Sailor Venus quotes, "What am I? Venus de Milo?!"
• Miles Davis's "Birth of the Cool" has a song titled Venus de Milo.
• In Wright Morris's novel Love Among the Cannibals the character Eva is described is "like Venus, but with the arms."
• The Venus de Milo appears in the Red Room, an enigmatic dream location in David Lynch and Mark Frost's television series, "Twin Peaks."
• In the film The Dreamers by Bernardo Bertolucci, Isabelle (Eva Green) poses as the Venus de Milo, standing in front of a darkened hallway and wearing black gloves to mimic its missing arms.
• On Transatlantic's "SMPTe" album, Venus de Milo is mentioned in the lyrics to "All of the Above Part V. - Undying Love".
• The rock band AC/DC, in the lyrics to their song "Touch Too Much" describe a woman as having "the body of venus with arms."
• Popular singer Jewel personifies the statue in "Jupiter", a song from her album "Spirit".
• In the Disney movie Hercules, the statue was seen losing the arms from a stray discus.