Venus of willendorf

When he published his ground-breaking thesis The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form in 1956, the great art historian Kenneth Clark offered: "The English language, with its elaborate generosity, distinguishes between the naked and the nude. To be naked is to be deprived of our clothes, and the word implies"u2026

Researchers excavating at the site of Catalhoyok in Turkey have unearthed a rare Neolithic figurine in the shape of a woman. The statue is considered unique for its fine craftsmanship, material, and because it was found intact. It has been proposed that the artifact served a ritual purpose.

Woman of Willendorf Statuette made between 28,000 and 25,000 BCE The Origins of Art Download vector

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Venus of Willendorf, Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Photograph by jorgeroyan via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-3.0)

There is something so comforting and joyous about prehistoric figurines depicting women, particularly the small, curvy ones, so welcoming in the abundance of their forms,…

The lush Willendorf Goddess shows that humans revered the Goddess as long as 30,000 years (the stone age). For many years, she was the oldest sacred art piece we had found...

Venus of Willendorf from multiple views.