Enciclopedia Cattolica

Plate CXXXI · Prehistory (Religious Manifestations)

Vol. IX (1952) · full-page plate
Above: FRANCO-CANTABRIAN ART (UPPER PALEOLITHIC): sample of cave wall figures (bovids, equids, etc.), painted in the cave of Lascaux (Ariège). The figures of the individual animals are large. Below: FRANCO-CANTABRIAN CAVE ART: male and female bison from the cave of Tuc d'Audoubert (Ariège), modelled in the round with the clay of the floor more than six hundred metres from the entrance of the cave itself. The female bison measures 61 cm in length, the male 63 cm.
(da F. Windels, Lascaux: chapelle aistine de la préhistoire, Montegnac sur Vezère 1948)
Plate CXXXI
(da route de Béguard. Les statues d'argile ... in Anthropologie, 23 (1912), p. 637)
Above: FRANCO-CANTABRIAN ART (UPPER PALEOLITHIC): sample of cave wall figures (bovids, equids, etc.), painted in the cave of Lascaux (Ariège). The figures of the individual animals are large. Below: FRANCO-CANTABRIAN CAVE ART: male and female bison from the cave of Tuc d'Audoubert (Ariège), modelled in the round with the clay of the floor more than six hundred metres from the entrance of the cave itself. The female bison measures 61 cm in length, the male 63 cm.

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