As for the paint it could be a mixture of a natural substance along with black charcoal and animal fat getlein 5.
Lion panel painting.
On the left there are four bison heads and two more rhinos.
Dates for the chauvet paintings hover around 36 000 years bp.
Lion panel which is in chauvet cave ardeche valley in france dates back to 30 000 bce getlein 5.
The model above is constructed entirely of images i shot for a panorama of the lion panel.
The overall scene depicts a hunt.
Above all of this drama at a different scale there is a large feline figure shown standing face to face with a lion cub.
The drawing could be painted onto the wall of the cave with the help of the reed brush.
The lion panel is located in the lowest level of chauvet cave theses paleolithic paintings are among the best preserved and most spectacular of the ancient world.
On the right of the composition there is a rhinoceros and a mammoth.
See annotations for a closer look.
The most popular color.
This composition is unique in paleolithic art.
What i couldn t envision at the time is how images can be repurposed.
I wrote about that experience for the ng proof blog and i ve reproduced that text below.
Almost all of the animals on this panel face left.
The ancient art archive all grows out of a national geographic magazine story.
Then there are seven bison pursued by a pride of sixteen lions mainly depicted by their heads alone.
The most common lion 3 panel art material is cotton.
The wall to the right of the central recess has a large number of animals drawn on to it.