Será que a VÊNUS DE WILLENDORF era um padrão de beleza para as mulheres?

9 Jun 2021 · 5 min
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In this lecture (Aula 3 of a prehistoric art course) the professor introduces the corpus of prehistoric female figurines, commonly called “Venus” figures, and uses International Women’s Day as a framing moment. He explains that the label “Venus” was coined after the first discovery (the Venus of Willendorf in Austria) and that it invokes Greco‑Roman ideals of beauty, which is misleading for Paleolithic art. The speaker maps the wide geographic spread of these figurines—from the Pyrenees and Cantabrian region in western Europe, across the Iberian Peninsula and France, to Siberia in the far east—showing they are not confined to a single culture. He argues that no single prehistoric standard of female beauty can be inferred from these objects; the term “Venus” creates a false impression that they represent an aesthetic ideal. By contrasting the well‑known Venus of Willendorf with other examples such as the Venus of Galgenberg, he demonstrates considerable stylistic variation, indicating that the figurines likely served diverse symbolic or functional purposes rather than embodying a uniform beauty norm.

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