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Venus of Eliseevichi

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The Venus of Eliseevichi is a Venus figurine from the Epigravettian.[1]

Venus figurine of Eliseevichi, ca. 15.000 BP, housed in the Kunstkammer, The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

The figurine was discovered in 1930, near the Sudost River in the province of Briansk in Russia. It is 15 cm high and was carved from mammoth ivory. Remarkably, the figurine depicts a young woman, just like the Venus impudique.[2]

Literature

Henri Delporte: L’image de la femme dans l’art préhistorique, Ed. Picard 1979.

Description and pictures of the Venus of Eliseevichi

References

  1. ^ R.-M. Weiss, M. Merkel (Hrsg.): Eiszeiten: Die Kunst der Mammutjäger, p. 196.
  2. ^ Henri Delporte: L’image de la femme dans l’art préhistorique, Ed. Picard 1979, p. 182.
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