Beauty

Winged Victory has to be the most beautiful sculpture in the World. It fell during an earthquake and no one really knows what position her arms stood. Until recently it was thought to be the only sculpture of its kind. Now another has been discovered in Libya. Victory stands on the bow of a ship inside of a small pond. She stood at the end of an amphitheater and back by the sea.

In the Louvre - she is really installation art more than a sculpture. She stands at the end of hallway. As you observe her - the same breeze that blows her dress pushes against your back. The grand wall provides a similar infinity feeling as the endless sea that once lay behind her.

With the exception of her foot - she is carved from a single piece of marble. Today it is difficult to imagine that she was shattered and reassembled into this beauty.