Page 18 - ART AND NATURE IN PREHISTORY. THE COLLECTION OF TRACINGS OF CAVE ART OF THE MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES

sitesthe second araña cave e almost 4 metre-long and 1.50 metre-high ensemble of copies of the paintings of the sixth of the Araña caves (the second with paintings) is one of the most complete murals of levantine art, and the best known nowadays:“ e pictorial locality being far from the village, in the vicinity of the Caroche mountain massif, stay at the site lasted a relatively long time, until the copies were completed, and it was therefore agreed to camp there where the paintings were. To that end, in addition to the material needed for the technical work, some beds were brought as well as camp furnishings, which had to be light and small due to the di cult access on horseback...” e details of the connection of these large-scale panels evidence the quality of the copies. Both the two canvas on the right and the two on the left are perfectly joined through the body of a deer.Eduardo Hernández-Pacheco carried out and published a study on these paintings, dividing its execution into several stages:“...I think I can distinguish in the pictorial ensemble six chronological stages in addition to some substages made up by isolated gures that appear here exceptionally...”art and nature in prehistory. the collection of rock art tracings of the mncn018