Men of the old stone age : their environment, life and art (1916)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, Scribner · leaf 442
PAINTING 4(1!) to enhance the effect of roundness or relief. In the splendidseries of paintings in the cavern of Xiaux there is little more thanthe black outline of the body, but the covering of the sides withlines, indicating the hair, lends itself to the rounded presentationof form. A somewhat… … Fig. 212. Opening (cross) of the cavern of Xiaux, in the Pyrenees, near Tarascon. Drawings in Various Caverns of the Early andMiddle Magdalenian The grandest cavern thus far discovered in France is that ofXiaux (1906), which from a small opening on the side of a lime-stone mountain and 300 feet…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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