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Cave of El Castillo. / 43.29222°N 3.96528°W / 43.29222; -3.96528. The Cueva del Castillo, or Cave of the Castle, is an archaeological site within the complex of the Caves of Monte Castillo, in Puente Viesgo, Cantabria, Spain. The archaeological stratigraphy has been divided into around 19 layers, depending on the source they slightly ...
High Pasture Cave. / 57.21389°N 6.01111°W / 57.21389; -6.01111. High Pasture Cave (Gaelic: Uamh An Ard-Achaidh) is an archaeological site on the island of Skye, Scotland. Human presence is documented since the Mesolithic, and remains, including Iron Age structures, point to ritual veneration of either the landscape or deities ...
Cave of Gabrovnica. / 43.44056°N 22.42472°E / 43.44056; 22.42472. Gabrovnica Cave ( Serbian: Pećina Gabrovnica) is located in Gabrovnica, Knjaževac, Serbia. Near Knjaževac, in the village of Gabrovnica, there is a cave whose walls hide the only preserved prehistoric cave drawing. The cave is well known for its prehistoric paintings.
The Ancient Art Archive (AAA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation, visual documentation, and sharing of prehistoric works of art, particularly cave painting and petroglyphs, around the globe. [1] The organization was founded in 2016 by photographer Stephen Alvarez following an assignment to photograph France's Chauvet Cave ...
Lascaux II, an exact copy of the Great Hall of the Bulls and the Painted Gallery was displayed at the Grand Palais in Paris, before being displayed from 1983 in the cave's vicinity (about 200 m or 660 ft away from the original cave), a compromise and attempt to present an impression of the paintings' scale and composition for the public without ...
Dimensions. 108.5 cm × 74.9 cm (42.7 in × 29.5 in) Location. National Gallery, London. The Mystical Nativity is a painting in oil on canvas dated c. 1500–1501 by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, in the National Gallery in London. [1] [2] It is his only signed work and has an unusual iconography for a painting of the Nativity.
The art in the cave is dated between 7,300 BC and 700 AD; [a] stenciled, mostly left hands are shown. [3] [4] In archaeology, cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings ), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin.
The Addaura cave ( Italian: Grotta dell'Addaura) is a complex of three natural grottoes located on the northeast side of Mount Pellegrino in Palermo, Sicily, Southern Italy. The importance of the complex is due to the presence of cave-wall engravings dated to the late Epigravettian (contemporaneous with the Magdalenian) and the Mesolithic .