Made over 2,200 years ago, the Winged Victory of Samothrace (Nike of Samothrace) is attributed to the Hellenistic Greek culture and was discovered in 1863 on the island of Samothrace in the northeastern Aegean Sea. Carved from white Parian marble with a grey Rhodian marble ship-shaped base, it depicts what has been identified as the goddess Nike alighting on the prow of a warship, with her head and arms missing but her wings and drapery dramatically rendered to suggest movement. The total height

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Just finished this drawing of the Winged Victory of Samothrace inside the Louvre Museum in Paris. If you want a chance to own the original drawing framed, I’m raffling it off to one lucky collector. Everyone who grabs a limited edition Paris Eiffel Tower print on June 21st at 12pm EST is automatically entered! https://keepsmiling.co/collections/artwork | Devon Rodriguez