Torso of Venus and a Landscape Torso of Venus and a Landscape Torso of Venus and a Landscape is a sketch by Post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. It now resides in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. This drawing was created while van Gogh was staying with his brother in Paris (in 1886-1888), a period during which they did not write any letters to each other. As a result, little is known about the artist during this period except for his still-life paintings and "Agostina Segatori Sitting in the Café du Tambourin". In 1887, he sketched this drawing onto a piece of paper with black chalk
Venus of Petřkovice a woman carved from iron ore (hematite). Uniquely, the absence of the head appears to be the author's intention. Also, unlike other prehistoric Venus figurines, it shows a slender young woman or girl with small breasts. It is now in the Archeological Institute, Brno, but between 7 February - 26 May 2013 it was displayed in the exhibition "Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind", at the British Museum in London. Venus of Petřkovice The Venus of Petřkovice ( or "Landecká venuše") is a pre-historic Venus figurine, a mineral statuette of a nude female figure, dated to about 23,000