Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1918)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 460
outlines the form with an engraved line;he traces in black color the contours of the head and of the body;he begins to apply masses of red over the figure. This begirmingof polychrome art at Marsoulas is a step toward coloring the en-tire surface with red ochre and black, as in the finished… … Fig. 221. Narrow passage in the cavern of Font-de-Gaume, known as the Rubicon. On the left wall at this point are two painted bison, and on both walls are marks left by the claws of the cave-bear. After LassaUe. POLYCHROME PAINTING 419 close of Magdalenian times. There are crude…
Prehistoric peoples · Paleolithic period · Art, Primitive
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