The Discovery of the Venus de Milo

As with so many questions (we all do it!) the wording of this one seems to have come from Wikipedia: "It is generally asserted that the Venus de Milo was discovered on 8 April 1820 by a peasant named Yorgos Kentrotas ... "

The fact that the statue was "discovered by a peasant on the Aegean island of Milos in 1820" (as the question has it) does not seem to be in any dispute; the uncertainty (implied by Wikipedia's words "It is generally asserted that ... ") is about the identity of the peasant and the actual date and location of the discovery. It may have been Giorgios (Yorgos) Kentrotas; it may have been his father, named as Theodoros Kendrotas; or it may have been Yorgos Bottonis and his son Antonio. The Bottonises claimed to have discovered the statue in February 1820, the Kondrotases on 8 April 1820.

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