Venus
of Willendorf Prehistoric Statue
Terra cotta ganges clay and resin statue, hand finished by artisans in India.
Measures 6 inches high.
Modeled after the authentic statue, this one is a little bit pock marked to
achieve a more perfect replica. This little Willendorf looks like a clay statue
but some resin is part of the mix to add stability.
$23.00
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Venus of Willendorf:
Neolithic. Great-breasted Nurturer. Willendorf Goddess represents
Gaia, Mother Earth, and Mothering in all her raw and fertile splendor. The proud
stance of this great-breasted nurturer, one of the earliest religious images of
the Mother Goddess, is a powerful reminder that there is a standard for feminine
beauty other than the one set by today's advertisers.
She is considered the Goddess upon whose breast children find comfort, the
"milk of human kindness," and great safety and serenity. Her
wide-hipped form represents fertility in all of its forms.
She is the most famous early image of
a human, found in 1908 by the archaeologist Josef Szombathy in an Aurignacian
loess deposit in a terrace about 30 meters above the Danube river near the town
of Willendorf in Austria.
Her great age and pronounced female forms quickly established the Venus of
Willendorf as an icon of prehistoric art, and she was soon included in
introductory art history textbooks quickly displacing other previously
used examples of Paleolithic art.
Being both female and nude, she fitted perfectly into the patriarchal
construction of the history of art. As the earliest known representation, she
became the "first woman," acquiring a sort of Ur-Eve identity.
Original find is made of porous Oolitic limestone, not found in the region, and
was presumably carved with flint tools.
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