Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1918)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 472
n length and from 3 to 4 in width, led to the develop-ment here of one of the most striking characteristics of all Palae-olithic art, namely, the artists adaptation of the subject to hismedium and to the character of the surface upon which he wasworking. It seems to show a high order of creative… … Fig. 228. Female bison lying down with the limbs drawn beneath the body, so that only the horns and tail project beyond the convex surface of the limestone boss on the ceiling of Altamira. After Breuil. and with the tail or the horns alone projecting beyond the con-vex surface to the surrounding…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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