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Woman holding bison horn, from Laussel, Dordogne, France.
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Woman holding bison horn, from Laussel, Dordogne, France.
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Title
Woman
holding
bison
horn
, from
Laussel
,
Dordogne
,
France
.
Date
25,000-20,000 BCE?
Cultural Context
French
European
Western European
Style/Period
Prehistoric
Paleolithic
Stone Age
Theme
Sculpture (visual work)
Carvings (visual works)
Reliefs (sculptures)
Figurative art
Figures (representations)
Front views
Women
Nudes (representations)
Nudity
Horn (animal material)
Subject
Sculpture
Women
Nudes
Breasts
Horns (Animal)
Description
"
Because
precision
in
dating
is
impossible
for the
Paleolithic
era
,
art
historians
usually
can
be
no
more
specific
than
assigning
a
range
of
several
thousand
years
to
each
artifact
. But
probably
later
in
date
than the
Venus
of
Willendorf
is
another
female
figure
, from
Laussel
in
France
. The
Willendorf
and
Hohlenstein-Stadel
figures
were
sculpted
in the
round
(that
is
, they are
freestanding
objects)
. The
Laussel
woman
is
one
of the
earliest
relief
sculptures
known
. The
sculptor
employed
a
stone
chisel
to
cut
into the
relatively
flat
surface
of a
large
rock
and
create
an
image
that
projects
from its
background
.
[…]
Today
the
Laussel
relief
is
exhibited
in a
museum
,
divorced
from its
original
context
, a
detached
piece
of what
once
was a
much
more
imposing
monument
.
When
the
relief
was
discovered
, the
Laussel
woman
(who
is
about
1
1/2
feet
tall
,
much
larger
than the
Willendorf
statuette)
was
part
of a
great
stone
block
that
measured
about
140
cubic
feet
. The
carved
block
stood
in the
open
air
in
front
of a
Paleolithic
rock
shelter
.
Such
shelters
were a
common
type
of
dwelling
for
early
humans
,
along
with
huts
and the
mouths
of
caves
. The
Laussel
relief
is
one
of
many
examples
of
open-air
art
in the
Old
Stone
Age
.
[…]
After
chiseling
out
the
female
form
and
etching
the
details
with a
sharp
burin
, the
Laussel
sculptor
applied
red
ocher
to the
body
.
(The
same
color
is
also
preserved
on
parts
of the
Venus
of
Willendorf.)
[…]
The
Laussel
woman
has the
same
bulbous
forms
as the
earlier
Willendorf
figurine
, with a
similar
exaggeration
of the
breasts
,
abdomen
, and
hips
. The
head
is
once
again
featureless
, but the
arms
have
taken
on
greater
importance
. The
left
arm
draws
attention
to the
midsection
and
pubic
area
, and the
raised
right
hand
holds
a
bison
horn
. The
meaning
of the
horn
is
debated.
"
(Excerpt
,
pp.18-19)
Material
Painted limestone
Limestone
Rock
Stone (rock)
Measurements
approx. 1' 6" high
Technique
Sculpting
Carving (processes)
Relief (sculpture techniques)
Work Type
Reliefs (sculptures)
Sculpture
Carvings (visual works)
Repository
Musée d’Aquitaine (Bordeaux, France)
Source
Kleiner, Fred S., and Christin J. Mamiya. Gardner's Art Through the Ages. 12th ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005. (fig.1-5, p.18)
Rights
Photo credit/reproduced in Kleiner courtesy: Index/Alberti.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
325-21.jpg
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