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Venus of Willendorf
Sculpture · Paleolithic

Venus of Willendorf

Artist unknown
25000 BC · Naturhistorisches Museum (Vienna), Vienna

Eleven centimeters of limestone from beside the Danube, once tinted red, with a woven cap covering the whole head and no face at all.

★ 8.1