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The Woman from Willendorf
In 1908, the Hungarian-Austrian archaeologist Josef Szombathy and his team members discovered a 4 and a half inch high statuette of a woman in the village of Willendorf in Austria. Believed to be between 25,000 and 30,000 years old, the female figure (sometimes known as the Venus of Willendorf) is carved out of limestone and exaggeratedly rotund, with curls covering the face.
Art historians Hugh Honour and John Fleming [A World History of Art (1980s, 2005, 2009)] write that she was probably an image of fertility, a magic charm designed to be held in hand. The work demonstrates that sex and art were closely allied from the very beginning.
Woman from Willendorf, Museum of Natural History, Vienna, Wikipedia
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Featured: The Venus of Willendorf by User “MatthiasKabel”, CC BY 2.5, Wikipedia
Other: The Venus of Willendorf by User “MatthiasKabel”, CC BY 2.5, Wikipedia
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that’s true 😛 both are allied from the beginning of Adam n Eve
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that’s true 😛 both are allied from the beginning of Adam n Eve
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