This orange hind belongs to the Cave of Altamira, a cave complex in the Nort of Spain, renowned for prehistoric cave art featuring charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings of fauna and human hands. The earliest paintings were applied around 36,000 years ago.
In 1985 it was declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The cave can no longer be visited, for conservation reasons, but there are replicas of a section at the site and elsewhere.
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Thursday Postcard HuntJanuary theme: COLOURS
- Week 1 - Blue
- Week 2 - Green
- Week 3 - Orange
- Week 4 - Pink
- Week 5 - Red
Very fine painting!
ReplyDeleteAnd specially if you consider how old it is!
DeleteWhat a nice long legged beast!
ReplyDeleteAccording to the postcard, a doe.
DeleteThat's wonderful - cave pairings are incredible. I wonder if our ancestors could ever conceive that their art would last for millenia.
ReplyDeleteI don't think so. But... who knows? Maybe they knew very old (lost) art, in the same way we know their.
DeleteLovely, lovely art!!!! Great card.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Marina.
DeleteThat's a nice one! It's too bad it can't be visited, but it makes sense. Too many visitors lead to problems. Especially recently when they purposely destroy things.
ReplyDeleteIt seems that just breathing next to that paintings would spoil them. But you can actually learn a lot by visiting the replica, so it doesn't seem a bad idea to me,
DeleteArt crosses time, lovely. I find cave hand prints fascinating, eerie but such a tangible connection across the millennia.
ReplyDeleteSame here.
DeleteI love that postcard, such a fine design. Amazing that it was made thousands and thousands of years ago!
ReplyDeleteImagine this artist with our current ressources and materials!
DeleteI hadn’t thought about that until now. Yes, that would surely make an even more wonderful artist!
Delete(Unless he or she then would have been distracted by time-consuming smartphones..)
Oh, yes, that could happen too!
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