“The perfection of the representation and harmonious style make the 29,500-year-old figure of the ‘Venus of Willendorf’ one of the most expressive works of art from the Paleolithic Age.

A Facebook user was banned from posting a photo of a prehistoric figurine of a naked woman. The Venus of Willendorf, which dates back 29,500 years, is considered one of the world's earliest ...

supposed to resemble a historical figurine called the Venus of Willendorf. And they say its all because of where it has been erected - on a property across the street from a pre-school and church ...

Venus figurine during scanning(Dept. of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna) Venus of Willendorf(Dept. of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna ...

The latest work deemed “pornographic” is the 30,000 year-old nude statue famously known as the Venus of Willendorf, part of the Naturhistorisches Museum (NHM) collection in Vienna. An image of ...

Fox in the journal Obesity. Their theory, reports the Art Newspaper, was that the physique of these Venus figures, which include the famed Venus of Willendorf, would correlate to the proximity of ...

A prehistoric art masterpiece has been censored by Facebook - prompting an indignant response from the Vienna museum where it is on display. The 'Venus of Willendorf' figurine of a voluptuous ...

Venus figurines are some of the oldest works of art that have survived from the Late Stone Age ... But the most famous is perhaps the Venus of Willendorf, a limestone figure depicting a faceless woman ...

The Venus von Willendorf is not only special in terms ... which is unique for such cult objects. The figurine found in the Wachau in 1908 and on display in the Natural History Museum in Vienna ...

Though it was made 17,000 years ago – putting some 9,000 years and 1,000km (621 miles) between it and the Venus of Willendorf – this new figurine is uncannily similar, with one twist.