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Animal Rights-Humane History Timeline: Antiquity » Medieval » Renaissance » Enlightenment » Romantic Age » Victorian Age » Early 20th c. | ||
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Animal Rights History Timeline » [BCE-CE] Antiquity » Cave Paintings-Paleolitic Art | |
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Grotto Font-de-Gaume[ca 32,000-30,000 BCE] It contains about 230 engraved and painted figures, including 82 bison, horses, mammoths, reindeer, a woolly rhinoceros, and a wolf. Its most famous images are a leaping horse and a scene in which a male reindeer licks the forehead of a female. Encyclopædia Britannica, s.v. "Font-de-Gaume" The first painting you see is a frieze of bison, at about eye level: reddish-brown in colour, massive, full of movement, and very far from the primitive representations you might expect. Further on a horse stands with one hoof slightly raised, resting. But the most miraculous of all is a frieze of five bison...The colour, remarkably sharp and vivid, is preserved by a protective layer of calcite. Shading under the belly and down the thighs is used to give three-dimensionality with a sophistication that seems utterly modern. Another panel consists of superimposed drawings, a fairly common phenomenon in cave painting, sometimes the result of work by successive generations, but here an obviously deliberate technique. A reindeer in the foreground shares legs with a large bison behind to indicate perspective. David Abram, Rough Guide to France) | ||||||||
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Animal Rights History Timeline: Classical Antiquity Common Era; Early Church Fathers [CE-485]  Cave paintings of 15,000-30,000 years ago are almost entirely of animals and the artists rarely portrayed the animals as being hunted or eaten. (Richard Ryder, Animal Revolution, "The Ancient World"). Paleolithic art, from beginning to end, is an art of animals.—Jean Clottes, "Paleolithic Art-France"
[30-28,000 BCE] Chauvet Cave Clay modellings in Montespan and Le Tuc d' Audoubert…caves are famous: Montespan because of a clay bear which is a real statue, nearly lifesize, and Le Tuc d'Audoubert because of two extraordinary bison following each other in a premating scene. European Ice Age rock art, often called 'cave art', is well-known all over the world, probably because of the high quality and antiquity of its images. So far, about 350 sites have been discovered, from the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula to the Urals.…When the Abbe Breuil published his big book "Four Hundred Centuries of Cave Art", he pointed out what he called 'The Six Giants', one in Spain (Altamira), the other five in France: Lascaux, Niaux, Les Trois-Freres, Font-de-Gaume and Les Combarelles. No doubt that nowadays he would at least add Chauvet, Cosquer, Cussac and Rouffignac to the list. (Jean Clottes, "Paleolithic Art in France," BradshawFoundation.com) |
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