Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Venice: Palazzo Loredan – Idols – The Power of Images – Exhibition

 
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


photograph and copyright manfredi bellati
 
Standing Oxus princess
Eastern Iran, central Asia - Oxus civilization - 2200–1800 BC


  
Standing steatopygous figure
Southwestern Arabia - IV millennium BC




Geometric Female figure
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.

photograph and copyright manfredi bellati


 “Venere Ligabue”
Eastern Iran, Central AsiaOxus
civilization - circa 22001800 BC



Cycladic Harp Player
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


“Scarface” in a black kilt
Eastern Iran, Central Asia - 
Oxus civilization
 2200-1800 BC circa



Standing female figure
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.



photograph and copyright manfredi bellati

Standing steatopygous figure
Southwestern Arabia
- IV millennium BC



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