Walters_Art_Gallery__The_Female_Figure_And_Hippopotamus

Walters Art Gallery: The Female Figure And Hippopotamus Walters Art Gallery: The Female Figure and Hippopotamus By: Erin Bray In the second or third millennium B.C. The Female Figure, a highly abstracted figure is the creation of a pre-Hellenic population of the Cycladic islands of the Aegean. Dubbed fertility goddesses, this female figure reclining with her arms crossed is typical of the sculpture of the Cyclades in the mid-2000s B.C. Characteristic features of this beauty include overall flatness, little bend in the knees, a deeply cut channel between the legs, and an almost complete dependence on incision to define body parts. The neck is unusually short, and the basic head shape irregular. Unfortunately its face is quite weathered, making the eyes and mouth less distinct than they once were#. The beautiful little blue-hued Hippopotamus figurine in the Egyptian art wing really caught my eye. It’s vibrant agean blue color comes from the process in which it was produced. hippopotamus, figure, body, female, egyptian, art, taueret, typical, sometimes, quartz, plant, middle, little, lion, legs, kingdom, inches, images, head, flowers, evil, cyclades, crocodile, considered, color, blue-green, bce, bc, animals, worshipped, worship#, wing, wide, were#, weathered