Altamira Cave Paintings

Finally, the cow, whose colour is wonderfully preserved, belongs to the group of polychrome animals. The horse, a type of pony, is unfinished and belongs to the polychrome paintings. The hind was painted first in pink, on an old background already painted in color; the deep traces and contours of her drawing are lined with the red of the horse, as well as the entire hind, somewhat darker than the Horse; she seems to belong to the class of monochrome flat colours; her contours are too lightened on the board, and give the mistaken impression that the Hind was made over the horse. There may have been, to start with, a horse, similar to the one on Plate XI. The contours of the limbs, the eye, appear to have been washed reasonably than scraped. Finally, destroying the entire physique of the previous animal, a bovid, which doesn't have the usual silhouette of a bison, has been painted. The horse's silhouette is filled in with pink. A bad graffiti of a Horse's head and different jumbled strains are above, between this painting and the wall, the place there are nonetheless some small purple marks. There are on the identical plate numerous crimson signs, maybe in connection with the second plafond; varied graffiti: a 'tête de biche' ( this image is identified elsewhere on this paper as a red pectiform (i.e. comb formed) sign - Don ) A little bit in entrance of the hump of the left bison; another between the 2 bisons, above the horns of the correct one, a 3rd in the vicinity, many other graffiti not very intelligible; several, to the left of the bellowing Bison, seem to comprise nonetheless roughly executed hind heads. Numerous graffiti within the neighborhood: a hind beneath the stomach (fig. 32, no. 1); huts behind the hocks, and behind the Boar in the path of the big polychrome hind. Elsewhere a large double line snakes by means of the animals which cowl it in large part. It is commonly tough to tell which animal is being described right here. Here and there, lastly, one suspects that the features that intrigue us are not more than shreds of figures that have been more than half erased. Morse a minimum of reveals here that he was not always as bad as displayed in the new York City Hall.