Woman of Willendorf Enamel Pin

£9.00

Artist’s impression of the famed “Venus of Willendorf” artifact. 

The Woman* of Willendorf is the oldest three-dimensional representation of a human being.   A window into our paleolithic past!  Nobody really knows if she is a lucky talisman, an object of worship, purely decorative or what... my favourite theory is that she is self-portraiture, carved by a woman looking down on her own body, hence the lack of face and feet.   Whoever she is and whatever her purpose this woman's image survived from around 30,000 bc and I often think of her when I am drawing women's bodies.  

* more famously known as Venus of Willendorf  - although it's becoming recognised that using this term projects a whole bunch of 19 C western assumptions about the female figure and its' purpose in art of onto a culture we know very little about.  Ie - they assumed it was to titillate. Modern scholarship rejects this.

40mm Hard enamel pin in black, pink, or white with gold coloured metal

Double posts with rubber backs

Made in the UK

 

 

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MISS DITE-ELLIOTT
Gorgeous

Been looking for something like this for years. Perfect in every way!

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Amy Thornley-Heard
Yes to the Mother Goddess!

This is a beautiful pin, with high quality metal and deep colour on the enamel. It would be great to have the option of buying grippy backs rather than rubber ones as I have lost pins with the rubber ones before.
Thank you for including the Woman of Willendorf in your collection ❤️

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Erica
Venus de Willendorf pin

I bought this as a celebration gift for a friend on completing her MA and she loved it! ❤️

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Laura Page
Beautiful Pin

I love the Woman of Willendorf so can now carry her with me wherever I go! This is a lovely little pin, arrived in good time and beautifully wrapped.

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Ellie Roberts
She is S T U N N I N G

The pin is literally so pretty. I'm absolutely over the moon with it! Panders to both my love of art and nudes! Incredible.