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Cabanel’s, The Birth of Venus, Industrial Revolution
Venus et l'Amour Voleur de Miel, Modern
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The Rokeby Venus, Baroque
Birth of Venus, Renaissance
Venus de Capoue, Roman
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Virgin and Child, Medieval
The Burney Relief, Mesopotamia
Bust of Nefertiti, Egypt
The bust of Nefertiti is 47 cm high and weigh about 20 kilograms. It is made of a limestone core covered with painted stucco layers. Its discovery in 1912, the bust has served as a symbol of the ethereal and elegant queen of the Nile. She is one of the famous historic figures and ideal of female beauty. She was the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. Queen Nefertiti was mother-in-law of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
This sculpture carved from piece of limestone, requires the stone core to be first plastered and then painted. Flesh tones on the face give the bust life. She has no pupil on the left eye. They mention it was never meant to be finish and they use wax temporarily on the eyes, so i guess the wax crumbled and melted.
This face is completely symmetrical and balance. She wears blue crown and has looped around like horizontal ribbons repeat color in red, blue, green and gold. She wears a necklace with a floral pattern on it.
The proportion of this sculpture is a regular features, long neck and heavy-lidded eyes. If you see in the front side you will see that it has perfect triangle form on her neck to head. Long neck makes balances the tall crown, her cheeks look so high. Everything is sculpted to perfection. This may reflect "aesthetic ideals of the era" and why her name means “the beautiful woman has come.”
Venus de milo, Greek
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Venus of Villendorf, Prehistoric
I think that each type of Venus had its own symbolic meaning that show in design of the female body parts. As the Venus of Willendorf, this represent female sculpture in the Paleolithic era. This sculpture was found in Australia. It carved from a soft porous limestone and tinted with red ochre. But the material not found around that place, maybe it not originally carved where she was found.
The nudity of Venus is quite revealing of the woman body. You can see that this Venus has a very large size of belly, breasts and she has very wide hips and the detail put into the vulva. So it means to used she as a symbol of fertility. If you look closely, you will see that she never had feet, does not stand on its own. In term of design, maybe it was design for not to place but holding. But In term of faith, maybe this was to show that the figurine could not leave wherever she was placed.
Size of this sculpture is four to five inches long, clear that the sculptor did not go for realism with the size and shape. It’s easy to holding in one hand. I think that because of their belief, it may have been carried during their hunting missions as a charm to success in their hunting and back to home safety.
The overall composition I think it has unity of great art. The overall color is the same, it red and the body parts are compact, and there are the harmonies. The Venus has the symmetry, because each side are same.