Winged Victory of Samothrace

Victoire de Samothrace / 190 BC

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The Victoire de Samothrace, a Greek marble sculpture of a winged goddess standing on a ship-shaped base, displayed at the Louvre.

Winged Victory of Samothrace — Photo by Rijin via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and edited / CC BY-SA 4.0

The statue is made of Parian marble, while the ship and base are carved from Lartos marble. The bust and wings were worked separately and attached, and the base consists of 16 blocks distributed over three layers. Greek letters (alpha, beta, gamma, etc.) are engraved on the plinth for slab positioning.