Alexandros of Antioch was an otherwise unknown artist of the
Hellenistic age who is best known today for the
Venus de Milo (
Aphrodite of
Milos) at the
Louvre Museum in
Paris,
France. He is known from several ancient inscriptions including one from a now missing
plinth that was a part of the Venus de Milo but was removed and "lost" due to museum politics and national pride at the Louvre Museum in the 1820s. The inscription and the style of its lettering cast into doubt the claim that the statue was an original by the master sculptor
Praxiteles from
Attica.