Many creative works have been inspired by the Roman goddess of love, Venus, throughout history. For a long time, Venus de Milo has been the most well-known goddess sculpture, but a new piece, Venus of Willendorf, dating from around 20,000 years ago, has recently been discovered. It was discovered in the early twentieth century and given that name because it was thought to be a fertility sculpture. Even experts in the field are unsure of the sculpture’s purpose, origin, or portrayal.
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The small statue, which stands about 4.4 inches tall, was discovered in Willendorf, Austria. It is thought that the work of art was created between 30,000 and 25,000 BCE, making it one of the world’s oldest. The statue is a naked female statue made of limestone with red orch for ting. It’s a faceless figure, but the head area is decorated with what appears to be a braid or a headdress. It was determined that its appearance was due to a fertility figure.
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#3. Heard of Venus Figurines?
“Venus Impudique” (Photo: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain)
They are female figures in small statues from the upper Paleolithic era. Many historians believe that they may have celebrated things such as fertility, femininity, eroticism, and goddesses. Around 144 fertility figurines have been discovered in Asia and Europe. And not all of them are comparable to Venus of Willendorf.
PBS explained that the ice-age environment in which the people who made the statue lived was harsh, and that features like fertility and fatness may have been highly desirable. As a result, body parts like the breast and pelvic girdle, which are critical for successful reproduction, may have played a significant role. And the artist’s brain may have been isolated and amplified as a result of the parts.
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The goddess Venus is associated with beauty, love, desire, and sex. Paul Hauralt, an amateur archeologist who first discovered such figurines in 1864, named them after Venus because of their appearance.
#5.How it had been discovered.
Johann Veran discovered it in 1908 during an excavation in the Austrian village of Willendorf. It was originally thought to have been sculpted around 10,000 BCE, but after further research, it was discovered to be around 20,000 years old in 1970. After extensive research, it was finally determined in 1990 that it dates from around 25,000 to 30,000 BCE.
Although little is known about the statue’s origins, it is a focal point in the Naturhistorisches Museum.
