Venus of Milo / Venus of Willendorf

Two metres of Parian marble, eleven centimetres of oolitic limestone

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He can’t see how me eyes are movinn, to him, I’m just a statue in t’window, Venus, bloody Venus of Milo—

— Or of Willendorf…

Venus de Milo — Aphrodite from Melos, c. 130–100 BC

Parian marble · H. 2.02 m · found on Melos, 1820 · Louvre, Ma 399 (M. Hamiaux, Les Sculptures grecques II, no. 52)

So-called Venus de Milo (Aphrodite from Melos), Parian marble, Louvre Ma 399
So-called Venus de Milo (Aphrodite from Melos), Parian marble, Louvre Ma 399

Public domain (PD-self) · Jastrow (Marie-Lan Nguyen), 2007 · Wikimedia Commons

Venus of Willendorf — c. 29,500 years old

Oolitic limestone · H. 11 cm · coloured with red chalk · found at Willendorf in der Wachau, Lower Austria, on 7 August 1908 · Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

The Venus of Willendorf, oolitic limestone figurine, front view, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
The Venus of Willendorf, oolitic limestone figurine, front view, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

CC BY 2.5 · MatthiasKabel · Wikimedia Commons · licence

Date, dimensions, material and find date per the museum’s own Venus research page.

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The planet, the goddess and the rest of the Venuses live in Venus.