This is a first video is a series about the history of women in the visual arts.
Women as Subjects: Fertility Figures, Goddesses, and Heroines
1. Woman of Willendorf (Venus of Willendorf). Limestone. ca. 28,000–25,000 BCE. Willendorf, Austria. Paleolithic Europe.
2. Statuette of Isis and Horus. Faience. c. 330 BCE. Ptolemaic Period. Egypt.
3. Artemis of Ephesus. Original statue probably made of wood and lost in the 4th c. fire. Ancient Greek. Ephesus, Turkey.
4. Venus de' Medici. Hellenistic marble sculpture. 1st century BCE.
5. Kichijjōten, painting, Nara or Heian Period, c. 8th Century, designated Japanese National Treasure. Treasure of Yakushi-ji Temple, Japan.
6. Donatello. Judith and Holofernes. 1455-60. Bronze. Renaissance Italy. Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.
7. Shiva, Uma (Parvati), and Their Son Skanda (Somaskandamurti). 11th century. Bronze. Bronze. Chola period. South India.
8. Jan van Eyck. Virgin in the Church. Oil on panel. 1430. Renaissance Flanders.
9. Gouro artist, Face Mask with Mami Wata, wood, paint, mid-twentieth century, Côte d’Ivoire.
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