#venusofwillendorf

#venusofwillendorf

Crocheted Venus of WillendorfThe Venus of Willendorf is the name that archaeologists have given to a nude sculpture discovered in a village in eastern Austria in 1908. It was carved about 25,000-30,000 years ago and is thus one of the oldest representations of the human form. It was likely a fertility goddess or a object used in fertility rituals by the community that created it.Redditor /u/tabloach suspects that, after all the millennia, the sculpture is now in the public domain and available for her to duplicate. Her chosen craft is crocheted yarn, which will be a bit less durable than the oolite of the original.#VenusOfWillendorf #crochet

Balloons and Wire Form Modern Venus of WillendorfsDid you instantly recognize what these sculptures were imitating? I did. They closely resemble the famous Venus of Willendorf, a nude sculpture found in Austria in 1908. This tiny limestone sculpture dates back to about 25,000 years ago. It was probably a fertility totem, as its exaggerated hips and breasts speak to, shall we say, a prehistoric male gaze.Artists Naama Steinbock and Idan Friedman of Reddish Studios in Israel name their collection of works the “Venus of Jaffa”—a reference to the large coastal city in Israel. When the artists inflate the balloons inside the copper wire frames, they form the sensuous curves of this female archetype.-via Colossal#sculptures #NaamaSteinbock #IdanFriedman #VenusOfWillendorf

Origin of 30,000-Year-Old Venus of Willendorf Determined to be Northern ItalyOne of the many displays in the Natural History Museum in Vienna is this tiny Venus figurine estimated to have been sculpted about 30,000 years ago. One interesting feature of this ancient artifact is it is made of a rock called "oolite," which is a material not native to Willendorf. Where did this figurine originate?With the help of high-resolution tomographic images, a team of an anthropologist and two geologists have found out a possible place of origin of the Venus of Willendorf — northern Italy. For the past century, the figurine was only examined from the outside. This was the first examination of its interior.So how did the researchers determine where the figurine possibly originated? The answer is through rock samples, which were collected from different countries. The said samples were sawn up and examined under the microscope. After a time-consuming analysis, the statistics pointed out northern Italy as the likeliest place of origin of the ancient Venus sculpture.(Image Credit: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen/ Wikimedia Commons)#Anthropology #Geology #VenusFigurine #VenusofWillendorf