Venus impudique

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Coordinates: 44 ° 57 ′ 3.5 ″  N , 0 ° 59 ′ 57 ″  E

Vénus impudique , 1907
Laugerie basse

The Venus impudique (German: 'Shameless Venus') is a Stone Age depiction of a young woman or a girl. The age of the sculpture is estimated at around 16,000 years, so it belongs to the Magdalenian . It is made of ivory and is 8.2 cm long. The head is missing.

It was discovered in 1864 by Marquis Paul de Vibraye (1809–1878) at the Laugerie-Basse site as the first Stone Age female statuette in France . Vibraye gave the sculpture the name "Shameless Venus" based on numerous ancient depictions of Venus that cover their shame ( Venus pudica ). In contrast to these, the shame of the stone age statuette was not concealed. The name of the statuette gave the name to the entire genre of the paleolithic Venus figurines .

Laugerie-Basse is an important Upper Paleolithic site in the municipality of Les Eyzies in the Dordogne department . In addition to stone artefacts and other tools, a total of around 600 works of art from the Magdalenian in Laugerie-Basse were recovered, including the "Woman under the Ren" ( la femme au renne ). It was found by Abbé Landesque (1838–1905) in 1867/68.

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literature

  • Henri Delporte: L'image de la femme dans l'art préhistorique. Paris 1978.
  • André Leroi-Gourhan : Prehistoric Art. The origins of art in Europe. Freiburg 1982.
  • Claudine Cohen: La femme des origines. Images of the femme in the prehistoire occidentale. Paris 2003.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Cohen (2003), p. 66.