How is the Woman of Willendorf sculpture similar to and/or different from the Venus de Milo? What do the differences in style and emphasis in these...

Both objects are three-dimensional sculptures of nude or nearly nude women. Each is
closely associated with, even iconic of, a particular area and time period. About both figures,
there is more speculation than fact.

The Willendorf
Woman is the older by far but this type of carved figure had become unknown after the society
that produced them died out. The first example known in modern times was found by an
archaeologist in 1908 near Willendorf, Austria hence the name. It is now in Vienna's natural
history museum.

About 40 other similar figures, some
incomplete, almost all female, have since come to light. (There are about 80 more fragments.)
Made of limestone and decorated with red ochre pigment in Paleolithic times, about 28,000 to
25,000 B.C.E., the first figure is about 11.1 cm high.

Both "Venus" and "Willendorf" are problematic terms. Because she
is female and nude, the name of the Roman goddess was applied. As she predates Roman
civilization by many...

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