Palazzo Loredan
Idols – The Power of Images
At Palazzo Loredan, Anne Caudet, emeritus of the department of Oriental Antiques of the Louvre in Paris, curates the beautiful exhibition, Idols - The Power of Images, until January 20. Idols takes its name from the Greek eidolon, or image and invites the visitor to embark on an aesthetic journey across time and space, to discover how artists who lived and worked around 4000–2000 BC created three-dimensional images of the human body. The vast geographic area extends from West to East, from the Iberic peninsula to the Indus Valley, from the gates of the Atlantic to the confines of the Far East. A tribute to the late Giancarlo Ligabue, whose multicultural interests are reflected in the exhibition, the journey reveals a surprising number of common traits, shared by distant people and regions, and compare local variants.
https://www.fondazioneligabue.it/en/mostre/idoli_7.html
Head from the figure of a lying woman
Late Spedos - Cyclades Early cycladic II - 2600-2400 BC
Late Spedos type
Late Spedos - Early cycladic II - 2600-2400 BC
Head from the figure of a lying woman
Late Spedos - Cyclades Early cycladic II - 2600-2400 BC
Late Spedos type
Late Spedos - Early cycladic II - 2600-2400 BC
photograph and copyright manfredi bellati
Standing Oxus princess
Eastern Iran, central Asia - Oxus civilization - 2200–1800 BC
Eastern Iran, central Asia - Oxus civilization - 2200–1800 BC
Standing steatopygous figure
Southwestern Arabia - IV millennium BC
Southwestern Arabia - IV millennium BC
Geometric Female figure
Sardinia, Turriga (Senorbì) - Early Bronze Age
Sardinia, Turriga (Senorbì) - Early Bronze Age
Eye idol figurine, rectangular body, long neck
Western Asia - 3300-3000 BC
Eye idol figurine, concave body
Western Asia - 3300-3000 a.C.
Western Asia - 3300-3000 BC
Eye idol figurine, concave body
Western Asia - 3300-3000 a.C.
photograph and copyright manfredi bellati
“Venere Ligabue”
Eastern Iran, Central Asia Oxus
civilization - circa 22001800 BC
Eastern Iran, Central Asia Oxus
civilization - circa 22001800 BC
Cycladic Harp Player
Thera (Santorini) - Early Cycladic II - 2600-2400 BC
Thera (Santorini) - Early Cycladic II - 2600-2400 BC
photograph and copyright manfredi bellati
Face from a composite statue
Southern Mesopotamia, Sumer
Early dynastic period II - circa 2500 BC
Face from a composite statue
Southern Mesopotamia -
Early dynastic period II - ca. 2500 BC
Southern Mesopotamia, Sumer
Early dynastic period II - circa 2500 BC
Face from a composite statue
Southern Mesopotamia -
Early dynastic period II - ca. 2500 BC
“Scarface” in a black kilt
Eastern Iran, Central Asia - Oxus civilization
2200-1800 BC circa
Eastern Iran, Central Asia - Oxus civilization
2200-1800 BC circa
Standing female figure
Indus Valley Civilization, Balochistan Mehrgarh -
style VII - circa 2700–2500 BC
Indus Valley Civilization, Balochistan Mehrgarh -
style VII - circa 2700–2500 BC
“Red Polished” plank figure
Cyprus, Bellapais–Vounos - Early bronze age III
2100–2000 BC
Two-necks “Red Polished” plank figure
Cyprus, Deneia, unknown archeological context
Middle Bronze age I - 2000–1850 BC
“Red Polished” plank figure
Cyprus - Early bronze age III - 2100–2000 a.C.
Cyprus, Bellapais–Vounos - Early bronze age III
2100–2000 BC
Two-necks “Red Polished” plank figure
Cyprus, Deneia, unknown archeological context
Middle Bronze age I - 2000–1850 BC
“Red Polished” plank figure
Cyprus - Early bronze age III - 2100–2000 a.C.
photograph and copyright manfredi bellati
Standing steatopygous figure
Southwestern Arabia - IV millennium BC
Southwestern Arabia - IV millennium BC
