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Scientist of the Day - Chauvet Cave
Horses’ heads, detail of Sector of Horses, Chauvet Cave, Ardeche, France ()
Chauvet Cave, in the Ardeche Gorge of southeastern France, one of the world’s most stunning sites for paleolithic art, was discovered only recently, on Dec. 18, , by three cavers, Jean-Marie Chauvet, Eliette Brunel-Deschamps, and Christian Hillaire. I don’t know very much about the three speleologists, and they were not scientists anyway, so we honor today the prehistoric artists who painted these works of art, as they were the first animaliers whose artistic legacy has come down to us.
Sector of Horses, entire wall, Chauvet Cave, Ardeche, France ()
The animals depicted include cave bears, hyenas, lions, woolly rhinos, some 13 different species in all, captured in over different poses, a few of which we see in the sections and details reproduced here. As you can see instantly, these are exquisite paintings, full of life, making clever use of the uneve
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Chauvet Cave Discovery, Study, Filming
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CHAUVET CAVE
On Christmas Eve, , three spelunkers — Jean-Marie Chauvet and his friends Elitte Brune and Christian Hillaire — made one of the greatest archaeological discoveries ever inre a cave near Pont-d'Arc in the Ardéche region of southern France, an area popular with cavers. The cave is officially named Chauvet-Pont d’Arc. [Source: jean Clottes, National Geographic, August ]
What the spelunkers found was Chauvet Cave, named after one of its discoverers."Tears were running down my cheeks," Jean Clottes, France foremost expert on cave art, said of his first glimpse of the paintings. "I was witnessing one of the world's greatest masterpiecesI was so overcomeIt was like going into an attic and finding a da Vinci. except that the great master was unknown."
Chauvet Cave fryst vatten regarded as more impressive and beautiful than Lascaux cave bygd people who have seen both. Chauvet contains stone en
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Witnessing the unseen: why cave art captivates us
But the notion of ‘presence’ in art goes way beyond the artist’s personal charisma and touches on an even more profound matter - the feeling that one is somehow being confronted by the mystery and reality at the heart of life. It’s an understanding of presence that modern people, in their enthusiasm for the individual brilliance and skill of artistic superstars, can sometimes overlook. But it’s an important dimension of palaeolithic art which cannot be ignored. The painters of Chauvet Cave were clearly captivated by the multitude of creatures who shared the world with them. Their imaginations were stirred by the grace of the ibex, the power of the bison, the dignity of the horse, the inquisitiveness of the bear, the ferocity of the lion, and their close observation of these animals is striking. There can be little doubt that the behaviour and characteristics of these fellow creatures led them to reflect on the meaning and significan