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2014-12-22 Saint Germain-en-Laye, musée-archeologie nationale, Yvelines, Île-de-France DSCN6005
Mammoth ivory
ORIGIN AND DATE:
Cave of the Pope (Brassempouy, Landes)
Around 21,000 years BC
ARTIST (S):
anonymous
DIMENSIONS:
Height: 3.65 cm
The Lady and the hood or Lady of Brassempouy is the most famous and most moving of prehistoric art because it brings us the most real and most vibrant picture of the Paleolithic woman.
The technical development of this statuette is very complex and give it great visual qualities: the incision to the grid and facial features, the perforation to the pupil of the eyes, grinding and polishing to the contours of the face.
This ;first human face, carved into the nucleus of a mammoth tusk, is quite striking. It is subtriangular and well balanced shape. Forehead, eyebrows, nose and chin are highlighted. It sees the pupil of the eyes, especially the right.
The representation of the face is quite exceptional. This head does not seem to be an individual portrait, but rather a symbolic image of the woman.
The female figures are much more numerous than men. Indeed, dozens of female statuettes called Venus, were found in all of Europe. Artists have carved them in stone or ivory, between 25,000 and 20,000 BC
These women are all figured nude, while the climate of that time was to require everyone to be dressed warmly. These representations are either slender or plump. The details of the faces are exceptionally represented, but none has mouths. Dress or clothing items sometimes adorn the Venus. The legs can be reduced to an appendage which suggests that some of these statuettes were perhaps intended to be driven into the ground. Caves retain their rock carvings of female profiles. Carvings reliefs and engravings also testify to this feminine symbolism. The woman is sometimes mentioned as his pubic triangle with its base, the vulva.
The hair falls from both sides of the neck, without reaching the shoulders. Eight other statuettes, whole or fragmented, have been unearthed in the cave of the Pope. All are kept at the National Museum of Antiquities and are part of the famous Piette collection.
2014-12-22 Saint Germain-en-Laye, musée-archeologie nationale, Yvelines, Île-de-France DSCN6005
Mammoth ivory
ORIGIN AND DATE:
Cave of the Pope (Brassempouy, Landes)
Around 21,000 years BC
ARTIST (S):
anonymous
DIMENSIONS:
Height: 3.65 cm
The Lady and the hood or Lady of Brassempouy is the most famous and most moving of prehistoric art because it brings us the most real and most vibrant picture of the Paleolithic woman.
The technical development of this statuette is very complex and give it great visual qualities: the incision to the grid and facial features, the perforation to the pupil of the eyes, grinding and polishing to the contours of the face.
This ;first human face, carved into the nucleus of a mammoth tusk, is quite striking. It is subtriangular and well balanced shape. Forehead, eyebrows, nose and chin are highlighted. It sees the pupil of the eyes, especially the right.
The representation of the face is quite exceptional. This head does not seem to be an individual portrait, but rather a symbolic image of the woman.
The female figures are much more numerous than men. Indeed, dozens of female statuettes called Venus, were found in all of Europe. Artists have carved them in stone or ivory, between 25,000 and 20,000 BC
These women are all figured nude, while the climate of that time was to require everyone to be dressed warmly. These representations are either slender or plump. The details of the faces are exceptionally represented, but none has mouths. Dress or clothing items sometimes adorn the Venus. The legs can be reduced to an appendage which suggests that some of these statuettes were perhaps intended to be driven into the ground. Caves retain their rock carvings of female profiles. Carvings reliefs and engravings also testify to this feminine symbolism. The woman is sometimes mentioned as his pubic triangle with its base, the vulva.
The hair falls from both sides of the neck, without reaching the shoulders. Eight other statuettes, whole or fragmented, have been unearthed in the cave of the Pope. All are kept at the National Museum of Antiquities and are part of the famous Piette collection.