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Pages in category "Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Prehistoric Rock-Art Site of the Côa Valley is an open-air Paleolithic archaeological site located in northeastern Portugal, near the border with Spain. In the early 1990s, rock engravings were discovered in Vila Nova de Foz Côa during the construction of a dam in the Côa River valley.
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The art of the Upper Paleolithic represents the oldest form of prehistoric art. Figurative art is present in Europe and Southeast Asia, beginning around 50,000 years ago. [1] [2] [3] Non-figurative cave paintings, consisting of hand stencils and simple geometric shapes, are somewhat older, at least 40,000 years old, and possibly as old as ...
Altamira cave (Spain) – in 1879 the first prehistoric paintings and drawings were discovered in this cave, which soon became famous for their depth of color and depictions of animals, hands, and abstract shapes. Chauvet Cave (France) – some of the earliest cave paintings known, and considered among the most important prehistoric art sites.
As such, rock art is a form of landscape art, and includes designs that have been placed on boulder and cliff faces, cave walls and ceilings, and on the ground surface. [3] Rock art is a global phenomenon, being found in many different regions of the world. [4] There are various different forms of rock art.
The word paleoart is also used in an informal sense as a name for prehistoric art, most often cave paintings. [ 3 ] The term "paleoart"–which is a compound of paleo , the Ancient Greek word for "old", and "art"–was introduced in the late 1980s by Mark Hallett for art that depicts subjects related to paleontology , [ 4 ] but is considered to ...
Entrance to the cave. The Cave of Maltravieso in Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain, was discovered in 1951.It shows traces of human occupation from the Middle Paleolithic.It contains cave art, most notably a total of 71 hand stencils, enumerated in the 1990s using ultraviolet photography, [1] but also linear designs and some animal paintings.