Thursday Night Life Drawing Group Icons and Statues Following on from last week's Male Greek and Roman Statues we looked at a few Female Icons Statues some from Greece, Roman and Middle East. In my search, I found this article which in many ways contrasts or complements last week's article. Last week our focus was on the whole body and inspired by some of the images I had chosen and those that Andrew knew himself such as The Boxer and the Kouros. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/13/absent-female-genitals-art-repeated Icons and Statues 1. Clay figurine of the Canaanite goddess. (Who is probably Asherah early female God, known about in Syria, Israel, Egypt... I am personally very interested in the history of Female Gods and Asherah 'Queen of Heaven' was worshiped up to about 1000 BC until monotheism and patriarchy started to form...the history is fascinating) https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-yhwh-became-god-1457732366 and for further reading down this rabbit hole - https://www.ancientpages.com/2017/04/12/lost-forgotten-goddess-asherah-queen-consort-sumerian-god-anu-ugaritic-god-el/ 2. Three Graces https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Three_Graces_Louvre_Ma287.jpg 3. Artemis (because she rocks!) https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net/goddesses/artemis/ 4. Greek Terracotta Figure of Seated Aphrodite https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/greek-terracotta-figure-seated-1871482179 5.Statuette of reclining nude goddess 1st century B.C. 1st century A.D. https://www.thecityreview.com/worldbetween.html https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/759563          Wednesday Drop-in 14 th October Introducing our new model Edmund...   
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