Venus of Willendorf from Willendorf‚ Austria 28‚000 – 25‚000 BCE Limestone Naturhistorisches Museum‚ Vienna Paleolithic - representation of a woman - female anatomy is exaggerated - serves as a fertility image - no facial features‚ just hair/hat - freestanding sculpture Statuettes of 2 worshipers from the Square Temple at Eshnunna (Tell Asmar)‚ Iraq 2700 BCE (early dynastic/Sumerian) Soft gypsum and inlaid with shell + black limestone Iraq Museum‚ Baghdad - represent mortals praying
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Imagine you are sitting in a crowd waiting for a show called “The Hottentot Venus” and you don’t know what the attraction is beforehand. Finally‚ the crowd gets silent and the curtain opens up. All of a sudden‚ you see a huge cage that is big enough for a gorilla. Then out comes a women with a collar around her neck and she’s struggling and fighting against the man holding her leash. He yells and she stands up and growls just like an animal. This is Saartje Baartman whose show you’re at and she is
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Introduction: Title: Venus of Laussel Date: 23‚000 B.C.E. Artist: Unknown Style: Upper Paleolithic Medium: Limestone Size: 18 in This is a carving in stone of a woman holding a horn. She has prominent breasts and a distended stomach. The woman has an undefined face and has long hair. Her breasts and genitals are accentuated to show her fertility . This woman does not appear to have much of a specific “beauty standard”
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enthusiasm to exploring the Venus. However‚ from 1961 to 1969‚ there were only 2 successful ones from 18 missions. The first successful mission is Flyby‚ conducted by the US in 22nd July 1962. On 27th August 1962‚ the US released the "Mariner 2"‚ which approached to the Venus on 14th December 1962 (Jet Propulsion Laboratory‚ 1962). The atmospheric temperature on the Venus was gauged by the microwave radiometer on “Mariner 2”‚ and the temperature of the top of cloud on the Venus was measured through the
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"The Birth of Venus" is a famous painting created by Sandro Botticelli between the years 1482 and 1485. The painting is inspired by Roman and Greek Mythology. The painting shows a naked young woman with long red hair standing on a massive seashell. The girl standing on the shell is mostly likely Venus‚ the goddess of love. This is because she is the focal point of the painting. To the right of Venus is another young lady draped in a billowing white gown and she is holding a red blanket. The maiden’s
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Venus Freeze When it comes to non-surgical fat removal‚ Venus Freeze is the latest in the market. Venus Freeze intercepts the signs of aging by removing the cellulite in many parts of the body as well as wrinkles and it also tightens the skin. Venus Freeze was developed and manufactured by Venus Concept. It is FDA approved and works by combining the radio frequency and pulse magnetic fields. How does Venus Freeze work? The groundbreaking technology of Venus Freeze produces an interaction between
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The Venus of Willendorf is one of the oldest and most famous early images of a human. She represents what use to be the “ideal woman” with her curvy figure and the emphasis on fertility seen in the features of her sculpted body. This paper will analyze the Venus of Willendorf sculpture in terms of its formal analysis. Most of the information about the Venus of Willendorf is based on scientific research and theory because there is no actual documentation that dates back as far as the sculpture.
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known for The Birth of Venus‚ he also painted common works such as Madonna and Child‚ Primavera‚ Holy Trinity and many more also including the contribution to the beautiful Sistine Chapel. Botticelli mainly used tempera grassa which was a new medium in Italy at the time‚ in which they would take the yolk from an egg and mix it with paint to make it more transparent. In addition to oil paint‚ he also used chalk‚ pen‚ bistre and tempera. I wanted to look deeper into The Birth of Venus because of how much
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workman Josef Veram uncovered the figure that has come to be known as the Venus of Willendorf. Found at a Paleolithic dig site in Willendorf‚ Austria‚ the Venus of Willendorf is a small limestone figure of a women. 53 years later‚ in Çatalhöyük‚ Turkey James Mellaart dug up the Seated Mother Goddess‚ or Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük. This figure was also clearly a women‚ but it was larger‚ and made out of clay as compared to the Venus of Willendorf. Though they came from very different parts of the world
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this time; he worked for King Philip IV. He was well-known for his detailed portrait paintings and he later influenced the artwork of the realist and the impressionist artists in Europe. “Venus at her Mirror” is a painting created by Diego Velazquez of the goddess Venus. Mainly influenced by the Titian’s “Venus of Urbino”‚ he painted her lying in a bed in a particularly sensual pose (1). Although this is a physically impossible position because of the angle she forms with her reflection‚ she is looking
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