Men of the old stone age : their environment, life and art (1915)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 459
t of Palaeolithic times much as theceiling of the Sistine Chapel does in modern art, are somewhat 4^24 MEN OF THE OLD STONE AGE more conventional in technique than those of Font-de-Gaume, butthey are manifestly the work of the same school, and prove thatthe technique of art spread like that of… … Fig. 227. The ceiling of Altamira, showing the round projecting bosses of limestone onwhich the recumbent figures of the bison are painted. After Lassalle. change of ideas among these nomadic people than the close re-semblance which is observed in the art of Altamira, Spain, andthat of…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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