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matteo moriconi

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Ok i have an update. Someone told me it could be Milo's venus instead of Galatea. Honestly if it was i wouldn't have much interest in finding the original author anymore, because i liked the idea of it being a tragic take on the Pygmalion myth. Anyway, tell me if this version makes more sense.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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I had thought that myself - because Galatea had arms, or was supposed to have had.  And yet. I don't know that the Venus de Milo is any likelier an explanation - it wasn't sculpted without arms, to start with.  The question is: why would the sculptor be sitting at the foot of a statue without arms, when the loss of the arms would have happened long after the statue was finished?  I don't think either version makes sense.  

matteo moriconi

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in the original myth, Pygmalion prays desperately for Aphrodite to give life to Galatea. This might be a painting of that scene. I don't know, the more you think about this painting the less it makes sense. 
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