Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1918)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 355
irit. It issomething which could not pass to them from another race, likean industrial invention, but was inborn and creative. Thesepeople were the PalaeoHthic Greeks; artistic observation and rep-resentation and a true sense of proportion and of beauty wereinstinct with them from the beginning.… … Fig. iss. Outline of a mammotli painted in red ochre in the cavern of Pindal, and attributed by Breuil to the Aurignacian. Only two limbs are represented. After Breuil. last, animated by a single motive, namely, the appreciation ofthe beauty of form and the realistic representation of it. This art,…
Prehistoric peoples · Paleolithic period · Art, Primitive
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