Lascaux
Britishnoun
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Reagan called film “the world’s most enduring art form,” which must have puzzled admirers of Mozart, Giotto and the Lascaux Cave paintings.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2023
“It is unthinkable that any culture would knowingly destroy Stonehenge or the Egyptian pyramids or the Lascaux caves in France,” Plibersek told Parliament.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2022
Not to mention the caves at Lascaux, the Dead Sea Scrolls .
From Salon • Nov. 26, 2021
About 17,000 years ago, in the caves of Lascaux, France, ancestors drew on grotto walls, depicting equines, stags, bison, aurochs and felines.
From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2020
Since 1963, the caves at Lascaux have been closed to the public.
From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell
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