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	Winged Victory of Samothrace \| Musée du Louvre
		The goddess of Victory (Nike, in Greek) is shown in the form of a winged woman standing on the prow of a ship, braced against the strong wind blowing through her garments.
		This is achieved by the oblique angles of the wings and the placement of the left leg, and emphasized by the clothing blowing between the goddess's legs.
		Of all the works in the Louvre, the Winged Victory of Samothrace and the Venus de Milo are among the most admired: in their striking depiction of the human form they encapsulate the "Greek spirit." This circuit traces this artistic quest of sculptors who had an indelible influence on Western art.
	www.louvre.fr /llv/oeuvres/detail_notice.jsp?CONTENT<>cnt_id=10134198673225805&CURRENT_LLV_NOTICE<>cnt_id=10134198673225805&FOLDER<>folder_id=9852723696500817&bmUID=1152002494402&bmLocale=en (880 words)

	Eleganza: Nike Goddess of Victory Marble Statue
		Nike of Samothrace and Winged Victory of Samothrace.
		In Greece, the winged goddess Nike represents the personification of victory.
		Nike the goddess of victory was the daughter of the Titan Pallas and the Oceanid Styx, according to the poet Hesiod.
	www.eleganza.com /product_info.php?products_id=52 (360 words)

	Phyllis Williams Lehmann; archaeologist of Samothrace; 91 \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Lehmann was an authority on the monuments and architecture of Samothrace, a remote, mountainous island in the north Aegean.
		Working on Samothrace in 1949, Phyllis Lehmann made one of her most important discoveries, a tall marble statue of Nike, the goddess of victory, dating from the second century B.C. Unearthed in three large pieces, Phyllis Lehmann's statue was the third Nike to be found on the island.
		The first, the Winged Victory that today greets visitors to the Louvre from the top of an imposing staircase, was found in 1863 by the French archaeologist Charles Champoiseau.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041023/news_1m23lehmann.html (605 words)

	Samothrace
		Samothrace (in Greek: Σαμοθρακη, Samothraki) is an island in Greece, in the northern Aegean Sea.
		Samothrace was not a state of any political significance in ancient Greece, since it has no natural harbour and most of the island is too mountainous for cultivation: Oros Fengari (Mount Moon) rises to 1,624 metres.
		His father Philip, being in Samothrace, when he was quite young, fell in love there with Olympias, in company with whom he was initiated in the religious ceremonies of the country, and her father and mother being both dead, soon after, with the consent of her brother Arymbas, he married her.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Cities/Samothrace.html (614 words)

	Samothrace - Definition, explanation
		Samothrace (in Greek: Σαμοθρακη, Samothraki, Turkish: Semadrek) is an island in Greece, in the northern Aegean Sea.
		Samothrace was not a state of any political significance in ancient Greece, since it has no natural harbour and most of the island is too mountainous for cultivation: Oros Fengari (Mount Moon) rises to 1,624 metres.
		Samothrace was part of the Athenian Empire in the 5th century BC, and then passed successively through Macedonian, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman rule before being returned to Greek rule in 1913 following the Balkan War.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/s/sa/samothrace.php (573 words)

	Winged Victory of Samothrace - InformationBlast
		The Winged Victory of Samothrace is the name given in English to a statue of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory), discovered in 1863 on the island of Samothrace (Greek Samothraki) amongst excavations initiated by the French consul and amateur archaeologist Charles Champoiseau.
		The Victory is considered one of the great surviving masterpieces of Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period, despite the fact that the figure is significantly damaged, sadly missing its head and outstretched arms.
		This probably served as part of an outdoor altar, constituted an ex-voto dedication in gratitide for victory and was intended to represent the goddess personifying 'Victory' as she descended from the skies to the triumphant fleet.
	www.informationblast.com /Winged_Victory_of_Samothrace.html (498 words)

	Winged Victory of Samothrace Encyclopedia Information @ Karr.net (Karr Network) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Victory is one of the great surviving masterpieces of sculpture from the Hellenistic period, despite the fact that the figure is significantly damaged, missing its head and outstretched arms.
		The Victory is one of the Louvre's greatest treasures, and it is today displayed in the most dramatic fashion, at the head of the sweeping Daru staircase.
		Winged Victory of Samothrace definition - The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called Nike of Samothrace, is a marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike, discovered in 1863 on the island of Samothrace by the French consul and
	216.92.11.22 /encyclopedia/Winged_Victory_of_Samothrace (1449 words)

	Interview with Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism, Part II
		The curves of the Winged Victory of Samothrace are different from the curves in, say, the work of a French painter of the late nineteenth century—those curves would be more alluring—but they are there.
		Since this figure has wings, there is a kind of intentness, a sense of looking and recession in a head which is dramatically contrasted with the expansion of the wings.
		In the Victory of Samothrace, there is a study in assertiveness, the straight line, and the uncertain line: there is a study in the pole and the twist.
	aestheticrealism.net /wkcr-interview-eli-siegel-2.html (2245 words)

	winged - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Wing, in biology, one of paired movable appendages by means of which flight may be achieved.
		Wings (motion picture), motion picture about two young men from the United States who become combat pilots during World War I (1914-1918).
		The Winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus), also known as the Goa bean (kacang botol in Malaysia), is a tropical legume plant native to Papua New Guinea
	encarta.msn.com /winged.html (199 words)

	Samothrace - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		The island of Samothrace, in the North Aegean, lies some 34 km.
		Samothrace (Greek : Σαμοθράκη, Samothraki, Turkish : Semadirek), is an island municipality in Greece, in the northern Aegean Sea.
		The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called Nike of Samothrace, is a marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory), discovered in April 1863 on the island of Samothrace...
	encarta.msn.com /Samothrace.html (175 words)

	Samothrace - Encyclopedia.com
		BC The famous statue of the winged Nike (or Victory) of Samothrace, built c.200 BC to adorn a ship and later transferred to the island, was discovered on Samothrace in 1863 and is now in the Louvre in Paris.
		On the Greek island of Samothrace for 32 summers, he was the archeological architect whose...
		The Winged Victory of Samothrace, say, or Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte." But the works of art at the Franklin Mint Museum...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Samothra.html (1075 words)

	Interview with Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism, Part II
		The curves of the Winged Victory of Samothrace are different from the curves in, say, the work of a French painter of the late nineteenth century—those curves would be more alluring—but they are there.
		Since this figure has wings, there is a kind of intentness, a sense of looking and recession in a head which is dramatically contrasted with the expansion of the wings.
		In the Victory of Samothrace, there is a study in assertiveness, the straight line, and the uncertain line: there is a study in the pole and the twist.
	www.aestheticrealism.net /wkcr-interview-eli-siegel-2.html (2245 words)

	Victory of Samothrace@Everything2.com
		This statue of Nike was discovered on the island of Samothrace in 1863 by archaeologist Charles Champoiseau, the French consul at Adrianople, and his excavation team.
		Her powerful wings are tense and ready to take flight; the feathers have retained a surprising definition considering the years.
		Winged Victory of Samothrace may have been sculpted to commemorate the Rhodian conquest of Antiochus III, circa 222-187 B.C.E., but it is not known who the sculptor was or when, exactly, it was done.
	www.everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=537785 (463 words)

	Poynter Online - Phyllis Williams Lehmann, 91, Arcaheologist of Samothrace
		Lehmann was an authority on the monuments and architecture of Samothrace, a remote, mountainous island in the north Aegean.
		Working on Samothrace in 1949, Phyllis Lehmann made one of her most important discoveries, a tall marble statue of Nike, the goddess of victory, dating from the second century B.C. Unearthed in three large pieces, Dr. Lehmann's statue was the third Nike to be found on the island.
		The first, the Winged Victory that today greets visitors to the Louvre from the top of an imposing staircase, was found in 1863 by the French archaeologist Charles Champoiseau.
	www.poynter.org /content/content_view.asp?id=86033 (636 words)

	~~ Wright Now In Buffalo ~~
		The original winged Nike was carved to adorn an altar in the shape of a ship’s prow in the Hellenistic Period in Greece, circa 200 BC.
		The figure known as the Nike was originally part of a larger sanctuary complex on Samothrace, incorporating a monument in the form of a ship’s prow, thought to commemorate a naval victory by the city-state of Rhodes.
		Nike, the personification of victory in the Greek pantheon, is depicted at the moment she alights on the ship’s prow to mark the military triumph.
	www.wrightnowinbuffalo.com /whattodo/Nike_MartinHouse.cfm (1609 words)

	UM AEC Public Art - Winged Victory of Samothrace (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The original Victory, or Nike (Greek for "victory"), dates to the early 2nd century BCE, and was from the Greek isle of Samothrace.
		Victory was very early in ancient times depicted as a winged female figure, and the one from Samothrace is generally considered the most beautiful, powerful, majestic; it was made of marble and set on a large stone pedestal in the shape of a ship's prow.
		The photo on the bottom is from the high school's 1967 yearbook Nunc Dimittis, the caption for which reads: "For the students and faculty of University High School, the Winged Victory of Samothrace for many years radiated peace and beauty as she serenely stood guardian of the third floor corridor.
	www.plantext.bf.umich.edu /planner/sculpture/gone/wingedvictory.htm (535 words)

	Samothrace Information
		Samothrace (in Greek: Σαμοθράκη, Samothraki, Turkish: Semadirek) is an island in Greece, in the northern Aegean Sea.
		Samothrace was not a state of any political significance in ancient Greece, since it has no natural harbour and most of the island is too mountainous for cultivation: Oros Fengari (Mount Moon) rises to 1,624 metres.
		With the battle of Pydna Samothrace became independent, a condition that ended when Vespasian absorbed the island in the Roman Empire in AD The Byzantines ruled till 1204, when Venetians took their place, only to be dislodged by a Genoan family in 1355, the Gattilusi.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Samothrace (602 words)

	Winged Victory of Samothrace - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Winged Victory of Samothrace is the name given in English to a statue of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory), found on the island of Samothrace (Greek Samothraki) in 1863 by the French archaeologist Charles Champoiseau.
		The Victory is considered one of the great surviving masterpieces of Greek sculpture, even though it is missing its head and arms.
		The Victory is one of the Louvre's great treasures, and it is displayed in the most dramatic fashion, at the head of the sweeping Daru Staircase.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Winged_Victory_of_Samothrace (379 words)

	WINGED VICTORY OF SAMOTHRACE (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called Nike of Samothrace, is a marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike, discovered in 1863 on the island of Samothrace by the French consul and amateur archaeologist Charles Champoiseau.
		A partial inscription on the base of the statue includes the word "Rhodhios", indicating that the statue was commissioned to celebrate a naval victory by Rhodes, at that time the most powerful maritime state in the Aegean.
		It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
	www.yotor.org /wiki/en/wi/Winged%20Victory%20of%20Samothrace.htm (425 words)

	Winged Victory of Samothrace \| Musée du Louvre
		The right wing is a plaster copy of the left wing, the only one to have survived.
		The Victory — “Nike” in Greek — is shown as if she were just alighting on the prow of the ship to which she is bringing divine favor.
		The proportions, the rendering of the bodily forms, the manner in which the drapery flapping in the wind is handled, and the expansiveness of the highly theatrical gesture all bear witness to the search for realism in sculpture dating from this period.
	www.louvre.fr /llv/activite/detail_parcours.jsp?CURRENT_LLV_PARCOURS%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673226914&CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673226727&CURRENT_LLV_CHEMINEMENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673226727&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302024493&bmUID=1154659300087&bmLocale=en (448 words)

	Le Louvre museum - France.com
		Among the well-known sculptures in the collection are the Winged Victory of Samothrace and the Venus de Milo.
		His new wing for the old castle defined its status, as the first among the royal palaces.
		Architect Claude Perrault's eastern wing (1665 - 1680), crowned by an uncompromising Italian balustrade along its distinctly non-French flat roof, was a ground-breaking departure in French architecture.
	www.france.com /docs/541.html (732 words)

	Winged Victory of Samothrace - Carved Alabaster Statue
		Winged Victory of Samothrace - Carved Alabaster Statue
		During the nineteenth century when nations became particularly conscious of collecting great works of art, the government officials were expected to serve as scouts for available treasures.
		It is thought that it honored the Rhodian conquest of Antiochus III (222-187 B.C.) and the courageous men who faced death in battle.
	www.murrayco.com /eleganza/graphics/Winged_Victory_Special.html (295 words)

	Winged Victory of Samothrace
		In Greek it is called the Niki tis Samothrakis (Νίκη της Σαμοθράκης) and in French La Victoire de Samothrace.
		In 1950 one of the statue's hands was found on Samothrace and is now in a glass case in the Louvre next to the podium on which the statue stands.
		The Victory is one of the Louvre's great treasures, and it is today displayed in the most dramatic fashion, at the head of the sweeping Daru Staircase.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/w/wi/winged_victory_of_samothrace.html (483 words)

	Nike of Samothrace Sculpture Statue (Louvre Museum, Paris France)
		The marble statue of the Winged Nike (Victory) of Samothrace (Nike of
		Samothrace) was discovered in 1863 on the island of Samothrace by
		wing being a symmetrical cast plaster version of the left.
	www.ancientsculpturegallery.com /B-CM140B.html (329 words)

	Winged Victory (large) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The body is thrust forward by the force of the powerful wings.
		During the nineteenth century when nations became particularly conscious of collecting great works of art, the government officials were expected to serve as scouts for available treasures.
		It is thought that it honored the Rhodian conquest of Antiochus III (222-187 B.C.) and the courageous men who faced death in battle.
	www.sculpturegallery.com /sculpture/winged_victory_lg.html (235 words)

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