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Across art history, the female body and the male have been stretched, sculpted and idealised into a thousand forms, yet one silhouette for the female keeps returning: the curvaceous, full-bodied woman. From hand-sized Palaeolithic figurines to Renaissance goddesses drifting across canvas, artists have used curves to speak about fertility, desire and cultural power. These bodies were never neutral; both male and female carried the weight of myth, morality and gendered expectation. What changes is the era; what stays the same is the gaze. To find out more about the portrayal of women through art history, read: Why Curvy Women Became The Ultimate Beauty Icons In Art History.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image on left; The Arrival of Marie de Medici at Marseilles<\/em>, Sir Peter Paul Rubens, 1622-1625.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women in Art History<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Palaeolithic Era, also known as the Old Stone Age, has miniature statues that represent women with a lot of curves as a symbol of fertility. This means that around 3.3 million years ago women had their first ever beauty standards. One famous example would be the Venus of Willendorf, a curvy statuette, theorised to have been made by a pregnant woman<\/a><\/strong> who could not see her feet.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Venus of Willendorf, Vienna Natural History Museum Postcard<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paintings of Women<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unsurprisingly, there is another iconic ‘Venus’ carved into the Art History world; The oil painting The Birth of Venus<\/a><\/strong> by Botticelli, c.1485. Venus covers herself, barely concealing her feminine curves. Venus<\/a><\/strong> was the epitome of beauty in Ancient Greece and Rome, and had a slender figure with wide hips.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Birth of Venus<\/em>, Sandro Botticelli, c.1485<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Titian Paintings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few decades later, Titian pushed this ideal toward something more intimate and fleshy with his Venus of Urbino<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. His Venus lies nude on a bed, her body soft, warm and openly sensual. The rounded stomach, full thighs and relaxed pose shift the female nude from mythic purity to domestic desire. She meets the viewer’s gaze without shame, offering a beauty coded through softness and sexuality. This version of Venus reinforces the Renaissance belief that women were to be looked at, desired and kept within the private sphere, a sharp contrast to the idealised male bodies of the same period.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Venus of Urbino, Titian c.1532-1534<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Men in Art History<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Women<\/a><\/strong> in art, they had always been ‘gifted’ with beautiful curves and ample bosom. Men, on the other hand, had mostly been shown with muscular figures and small genitalia or even covered. Greco-Roman<\/a><\/strong> Sculptures had a high value placed on smaller penises for statues intended to be taken seriously, whereas larger ones were considered comical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roman Sculpture<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A perfect example of this is The Rape of Proserpina<\/em>, which is a Baroque statue by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Depicting the abduction of Persephone by Hades, it presents the beauty of women as curvaceous with plump skin and breasts, whilst men are portrayed as very muscular with covered genitalia, as they were to be taken more seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Rape of Proserpina<\/em>, Gian Lorenzo Bernini c.1621-1622, Photograph taken at Galleria Borghese, Rome by Lucy Beynsberger<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michelangelo’s David<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michelangelo’s David<\/em> has this same ideal seen in Greco-Roman sculpture. David<\/em> is an Italian Renaissance masterpiece, a beautifully sculpted statue in marble created from 1501 to 1504. The body is powerful, heroic and athletic, but the genitalia are kept deliberately small. This wasn’t a flaw in proportion; Renaissance artists linked large penises with lust, foolishness and a loss of self-control. By contrast, a smaller penis signalled rationality and discipline. Michelangelo wanted viewers to see David as a focused, rational her, not a sexual figure. It reinforces the divide in art history where male power is shown through muscle, while female power is framed through sexuality.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Photo of David, Michelangelo c. 1501-1504, taken by J\u00f6rg Bittner<\/a><\/strong>, no changes made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sir Peter Paul Rubens<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Renaissance sculptors built the male ideal around restraint and controlled power, painters in the following centuries shaped a very different ideal for women. Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist and diplomat during the 16th and 17th centuries. His nude paintings<\/a><\/strong> of women, which emphasise the concepts of fertility, desire and temptation, are thought to have been made to sexually appeal to his largely male audience of patrons. His women were robust, with exaggerated curves and were seen as the ideal beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Taken from a section of the painting, The Arrival of Marie de Medici at Marseilles<\/em> by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, c.1622-1625<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Art History<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Curvaceous woman has survived every shift in taste, every cultural rewrite and every new regime of beauty. Whether carved in limestone, painted in oil or frozen in marble, she persists as a symbol that outlives the intentions of the men who made her. She is fertility, temptation, divinity and flesh, all at once. The history of art keeps trying to shape her, but in the end it is her body that shapes history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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