@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2021.0751, 

TITLE={The Lady of Lespugue, or Avatars of a prehistoric woman revisited}, 
  
AUTHOR={Patrick Paillet, }, 
	
JOURNAL={Art and Science}, 
	
VOLUME={5}, 

NUMBER={Issue 4}, 
	
YEAR={2021}, 

URL={https://openscience.fr/The-Lady-of-Lespugue-or-Avatars-of-a-prehistoric-woman-revisited}, 
	
DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2021.0751}, 
	
ISSN={2515-8767}, 
	
ABSTRACT={The "Venus", or as we should say, the "Lady" of Lespugue displays a naked body whose hypertrophied forms, born from ivory through the mind and hand of a sculptor, have since its discovery contributed to an abundant scientific, artistic and even poetic literature. If prehistoric statuary sometimes has some aesthetic surprises for us, either because it displays its naturalistic pretensions, or because it claims a deliberately schematic expression, it seldom offers such an expressive modernity. So much has been said and written about this old lady - good manners should keep us silent about her age - but even after about 25,000 years, she still shows that the breath of eternity which animates her could fire up our inspiration. But we cannot remain coy in the face of this ideal representation of a woman that defies all anatomical sense. Therefore, we propose in these few lines to lift a corner of the "veil" or the "loincloth" which has never hidden anything of its reinvented nudity.}}