Venus of Willendorf
prehistoric figurine from Austria
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Summary
Venus of Willendorf is a sculpture[1]. It ranks in the top 0.39% of sculpture entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (17,386 views/month, #6 of 1,525).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Josef Szombathy[3]
- Country: Austria[4]
- Instance of: archaeological find[5], Venus figurine[6]
- Movement: art of the Paleolithic[7]
- Genre: Venus figurine[8]
- Named after: Willendorf in der Wachau[9]
- Depicts: woman[10], nudity[11], steatopygia[12], female breast[13], navel[14], pubic bone[15], buttocks[16], hip[17], gluteal sulcus[18], intergluteal cleft[19], mons pubis[20]
- Made from material: oolitic limestone[21], limestone[22]
- Location of discovery: Willendorf II[23]
- Collection: Natural History Museum, Vienna[24]
- Location: Austria[25]
- Commons category: Venus of Willendorf[26]
- Time of discovery or invention: August 7, 1908[27]
- Coordinate location: 48.31666666666667, 15.383333333333333[28]
- Topic's main category: Category:Venus of Willendorf[29]
- Native label: Venus von Willendorf[30]
- Height: 11.1[31]
- Name: Venus of Willendorf[32], Venus von Willendorf[33]
- Culture: Gravettian[34]
- Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Sculpture[35], WikiProject Visual arts[36]
- Age estimated by a dating method: 25,000[37]
- P14541: 40scan[38]
Why It Matters
Venus of Willendorf has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[39] It is known by 54 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]