Painting
Lascaux Cave Paintings
Anonymous (Palaeolithic), c. 17000 BC
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Ancient · chronological order 1
Where to see it
Lascaux IV
Montignac · France
The original cave has been closed since 1963. Lascaux IV is an exact replica a short walk away.
A set of cave paintings in the Dordogne (France), found by chance in September 1940 by four teenagers and a dog called Robot. More than six hundred figures, mostly horses, deer, aurochs and bison, done in ochre and charcoal. The best known part, the “Hall of the Bulls”, holds a five metre aurochs: the largest figure known in cave art.