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Replica of rhinoceros paintings in the Chauvet cave. She trained at the École du Louvre and the Sorbonne, where she studied under André Leroi-Gourhan. [1] She joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 1973 and participated in the excavations at the Magdalenian site at Pincevent.
The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave (French: Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc, French pronunciation: [ɡʁɔt ʃovɛ pɔ̃ daʁk]) in the Ardèche department of southeastern France is a cave that contains some of the best-preserved figurative cave paintings in the world, [1] as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life. [2]
Born in Marines, Charles-Alexis Chauvet made his debut at the organ of St. Remi church in Marines, only 11 years old.He entered the Conservatoire de Paris at the age of 13 to study organ with François Benoist (1st Prize of organ in 1860) and music composition with Ambroise Thomas, of which he became assistant in composition class.
Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a 2010 3D documentary film by Werner Herzog about the Chauvet Cave in Southern France, which contains some of the oldest human-painted images yet discovered—some of them were crafted around 32,000 years ago.
The creation of the Caverne du Pont-d'Arc is a project which is cultural, scientific and technological, unique in its design and in its size (3,500 m 2 (38,000 sq ft) on the ground and 8,180 m 2 (88,000 sq ft) of geological facies - floors, walls and ceilings) making it the largest decorated replica cavern in the world.
Pierre Chauvet (racing driver), pseudonym of Friedrich Glatz (1943–2002), Austrian racing driver Stéphen Chauvet (1885–1950), French physician and author of Easter Island and Its Mysteries Vincent Chauvet (born 1987), French activist and politician
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Chauvet tablet, is one of two dozen surviving texts. Other names. F is the standard ...
Other fine examples of art from the Upper Palaeolithic (broadly 40,000 to 10,000 years ago) include cave painting (such as at Chauvet, Lascaux, Altamira, Cosquer, and Pech Merle), incised / engraved cave art such as at Creswell Crags, [18] portable art (such as animal carvings and sculptures like the Venus of Willendorf), and open-air art (such ...