The mural "Kanony urody kobiecej na przestrzeni wieków" (Canons of Female Beauty Through the Ages), in a courtyard on Piotrkowska 48, references the Venus de Milo and the ancient canon of beauty.
In the courtyard of the tenement building at ulica Piotrkowska 48, the artist duo Raku and Barys painted a mural in 2013 titled "Canons of Female Beauty Through the Centuries". The composition is not visible from the street as it is located on the wall of an outbuilding.
Raku, also known as Rafał Kłębowski, an assistant at the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, and Barys, also known as Marcin Bariasz, work together as the collective Digital Forms, which has evolved from a fascination with street art towards visual design, illustration and 3D graphics. The mural depicts nude female figures in a bathing scene inspired by ancient Greece, alluding to the Venus de Milo as a symbol of the antique canon of beauty.
The building in whose courtyard the mural is located was erected in 1873. Throughout its history it housed, among other things, the bookshop of Ludwik Fischer, which operated from 1896 to 1918, and the studio of painter Samuel Hirszenberg, active until 1904. In the interwar period the building was home to cafés and restaurants, and from 1970 it has housed a student health clinic. The property was once owned and operated by industrialist Rudolf Kindler, who ran a textile factory until the 1920s.
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