... peoples during an enormously long period of time, estimated by geologists at over 50,000 years; but it is only in the upper palteolithic that the real development of the art of sculpture and painting begins and may be followed step by step from the... American Museum Journal - Seite 2791912Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| University of Pennsylvania - 1916 - 592 Seiten
...him. This very early art has been traced from (303) its crudest stages up, step by step, to a period in " which wonderfully naturalistic effects are produced...combination of three colors — black, ocher and red in polychrome paintings." (HF Osborne.) In the famous Bull Buffalo from the caverns at Altamira, Spain,... | |
| American Museum of Natural History - 1912 - 378 Seiten
...V^ZERE NEAR LE RUTH IN THE DORDOGNE CAVERN REGION VILLAVICIOSO co A. -• MEN OF THE OLD STONE AGE 281 to another limestone country threaded with caves,...of Toulouse, we first entered the great cavern of Niaux, three hundred feet above a small tributary of the Ariege near Tarascon. Advancing half a mile... | |
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