Female Statue - Worshiping Statue - Need Help

[poppe]

Hey guys,

I was wondering if any of you could help me. I am looking for a statue, painting, or some artistic medium in that realm of a female, something that has been or was worshiped by all. Not so much a fertility statue, but more something like a god statue. Something that would say women are on a pedestal, this higher being of perfection.

This is for something I am writing, so please forgive me for making this sound weird.

 

[QuarterSwede]

Aphrodite?

 

[RacerX]

Well, if I was going to worship any statue, it would most likely be this one (front, back). Not sure if this was what you were looking for, but I hope it helps.

 

[4JNA]

the mother of them all

Nyx to you.

 

[poppe]

Aphrodite?

I am going to use Aphrodite as a last resort, as I am looking for something a little different. Aphrodite is known to have bed with many men, but I am looking for a statue to represent, the woman, the pure woman, the perfect woman.

Well, if I was going to worship any statue, it would most likely be this one (front, back). Not sure if this was what you were looking for, but I hope it helps.

What is the back story on this statue?

 

[RacerX]

What is the back story on this statue?

I'm not entirely sure... I was researching a topic a few months back and happened across the image of this statue. It was so beautiful that I bookmarked the page, and when you asked for a female statue, this popped back in mind. According to Wikipedia she is a water spirit... but as I said, this representation of her (more than any other I've seen) is rather entrancing.

 

[poppe]

I'm not entirely sure... I was researching a topic a few months back and happened across the image of this statue. It was so beautiful that I bookmarked the page, and when you asked for a female statue, this popped back in mind. According to Wikipedia she is a water spirit... but as I said, this representation of her (more than any other I've seen) is rather entrancing.

I agree. I just wish the backstory was simple to fine for anyone, so that if when seeing this statue in my project, they could go and research it and get a deeper meaning to my story; that is if she fit what I was looking for.

 

[RacerX]

Well, here is the backstory of the statue from the Yale University Art Gallery...

"Undine was the heroine of a popular French nineteenth-century romantic novel in which a mermaid princess forsakes the carefree life of a water-spirit to gain a soul by marrying the mortal knight she loves. When her husband proves unfaithful, Undine is forced by the laws of the water-spirits to kill him. Ives depicts the moment when the mournful Undine, cloaked in a white veil, rises like a fountain from the castle's wellspring to claim her husband's life. The exquisitely carved wet drapery is one of the most notable American examples of see-through illusionism popular in mid-nineteenth-century sculpture."​

Most likely not what you were looking for as it seems to be more of a cautionary tale aimed at us.

 

[poppe]

Well, here is the backstory of the statue from the Yale University Art Gallery...

"Undine was the heroine of a popular French nineteenth-century romantic novel in which a mermaid princess forsakes the carefree life of a water-spirit to gain a soul by marrying the mortal knight she loves. When her husband proves unfaithful, Undine is forced by the laws of the water-spirits to kill him. Ives depicts the moment when the mournful Undine, cloaked in a white veil, rises like a fountain from the castle's wellspring to claim her husband's life. The exquisitely carved wet drapery is one of the most notable American examples of see-through illusionism popular in mid-nineteenth-century sculpture."​

Most likely not what you were looking for as it seems to be more of a cautionary tale aimed at us.

No not much for this story, but is very interesting. May have to pick up the novel!

 

[hulugu]

Maybe Athena. There were several versions, including Pallas Athena and the massive bronze statue of Athena Promachos.

Or Galatea from the Pygmalion myth?

 

[Chundles]

Aphrodite is known to have bed with many men, but I am looking for a statue to represent, the woman, the pure woman, the perfect woman.

Yep, that sounds like Aphrodite.