lascaux in English

noun
1
the site of a cave in the Dordogne, France, which is richly decorated with Paleolithic wall paintings of animals dated to the Magdalenian period.

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1. Altamira is to Spain what Lascaux is to France

2. Carbon dioxide and moisture threaten to efface the Lascaux cave drawings.

3. 2 Lascaux recommend that a tiny percentage of glycerine keeps the colour slightly moist.

4. Most of them are located within the craters Lascaux and Mammoth, but they may not have been produced there.

5. The art in both caves was found, accidentally by children, although those in Altamira were found 60 years earlier than those in Lascaux

6. It is widely assumed that the earliest human artworks are the stupendously skillful cave paintings that we all know from Lascaux and Chauvet.

7. the cave paintings at Lascaux, for example, are an ochred zooanalia of horses, stags, bison, felines, a woolly rhinoceros, a bird, a leaping cow — and only one puny man.

8. The Anathemata is more obviously a poem, in the sense in which Pound's Cantos is a poem Both his books -- like his paintings -- have a thrice-distilled quality of finality and impersonality, like Gothic stone-carvings or the paintings on the walls of the Lascaux caves.'

9. What are some examples of well-known murals? (e.g. The tomb paintings of the ancient Egyptians which depicted life in the afterworld, the Bonampak paintings of the Maya which showed some of their rituals, the prehistoric cave paintings at Lascaux and Altamira, Great Depression murals, the paintings at Santorini, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel).