The Venus de Milo is the Hellenistic marble statue of Aphrodite discovered on Milos in 1820 and displayed at the Louvre.
The statue was found on the Greek island of Milos, then part of the Ottoman Empire, and acquired by France soon afterward. It is generally dated to about 150–125 BC and is carved from Parian marble. The figure is missing both arms, which has encouraged many theories about her original pose and attributes.
The statue is usually identified as Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, although some scholars have proposed Amphitrite, a sea goddess associated with Milos. Its common French-derived name, Venus de Milo, uses the Roman name Venus rather than Aphrodite.
The Louvre displays it prominently in the Galerie des Antiques. It should not be confused with the earlier Aphrodite of Knidos, a lost Greek masterpiece known mainly through Roman copies.