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Pygmalion fell in love with a statue he created (which was later named Galatea). Aphrodite (Venus) answered his prayers that the statue become a real woman.
This has been captured perhaps most famously by Jean-Léon Gérôme's oil painting 'Pygmalion and Galatea'.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_(mythology)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galatea_(mythology)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLA_metmuseum_Pygmalion_and_Galatea_ca_1890.jpg
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Who carved a statue that the gods brang to life?
The man who carved the statue of a woman that the gods brought to life was supposedly Pygmalion, King of Cyprus.
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You are thinking of Pygmalion. He fell in love with a statue of Athena, which was brought to life for him. The two then married, though the woman was not Athena herself.
Who carved a beautiful woman then fell in love with and the gods made her real?
it matters if your talking about Greek or roman myths. i think the Greek myth is Daphne and Eros I'm honestly not sure
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