What is believed to be the purpose of the women from willendorf

What is believed to be the purpose of the women from willendorf is "Venus figure" or "Goddess," and it used as a symbol of fertility also represents the ancient ideal of beauty.

Venus of Willendorf, also called Woman of Willendorf, Upper Paleolithic female figurine. It is only 11cm tall and created at c. 28,000 BCE – 25,000 BCE but wasn't found until 1908 by a archaeologist Johann Veran at Willendorf, Austria. The material of this sculpture is oolitic limestone. It was most likely made by the Upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherers who lived nomadic in the area.

This statue is an important icon of prehistory. Prehistoric art is all art that produced in preliterate, prehistorical cultures.

The suggestion is that it was a "Venus figure" or "Goddess," and it used as a symbol of fertility. Some believe that the figurines are representations of a mother-goddess. Also some represented it as an ancient ideal of beauty. In Paleolithic art, fertility is usually associated with figurines with parts of human anatomy.

Grade:  9

Subject: arts

Chapter:  international sculpture

Keywords: the women from willendorf