Lecture 3: The Beginnings of Art

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  1. Map: Western Europe., showing Stone Age sites. (Kostof Fig. 2.1).
  2. Lascaux cave: top (a-b), sections; bottom, plan. (Kostof Fig. 2.5).
  3. Lascaux cave: tracings of painted and engraved horses. c15,000 BC.
  4. Lascaux cave: First Chamber, c.15,000 BC.
  5. Lascaux cave: Frieze of the Bulls, c.15,000 BC.
  6. Lascaux cave: Large black cow with unintelligible checker-board figures, c.15,000 BC.
  7. Lascaux cave: Shaft of the Dead Man, c.15,000 BC.
  8. Bison , Tuc D'Audoubert, Ariege. c.15,000 BC, modelled clay, 25 and 24 inches long
  9. Bison , Tuc D'Audoubert, Ariege. c.15,000 BC, modelled clay, 25 and 24 inches long
  10. Mammoth , from the Vogelherd Cave, Wurttemberg, Germany. c.25,000-20,000 BC, Ivory, 1.9 inches long.
  11. Les Trois Freres Cave, c15,000-10,000 BC, drawing of "sorcerer" after Breuil.
  12. Venus of Laussel, Dordogne, France. c.22,000-19,000 BC, Stone, 18.5 inches high.
  13. Venus of Willendorf, c.25,000 BC, Painted Stone, 4.5 inches high.
  14. Venus of Willendorf, c.25,000 BC, Painted Stone, 4.5 inches high, front left.
  15. Woman's Head, Grotte du Pape, France, c.22,000 BC, Ivory, 1 1/3 inches high.