Lascaux Hall of the Bulls - Deer under Horse Canvas Print

Lascaux Hall of the Bulls, Deer under Horse. Digital oil painting.

Detail of the deer between the aurochs and under the horse in the Hall of the Bulls of Lascaux, France. Digital painting.

It is easy to miss those delicate deer with so many bigger figures around. However, those tiny creatures, drawn with just a few touches, are exquisite. The artist used a chip on the surface of the cave wall to represent the horns of the one in the center, and it was probably this chip that inspired the presence of those deer in the first place.

It is hard to find another panel of such beauty, both in color and in variety amongst the most fine and exquisite paintings of the paleolithic.

Aurochs or bulls, deer, horses, and the uncanny figure called the unicorn, in which many recognize two hunters with spears under a piece of fur, this panel is full of energy and life. The peculiar style and variety of figures together in a continuous composition set Lascaux as one of...

Hi there, Born in '72 and shooting pictures since '83, I have concentrated my efforts in Cave Art and Ancient Civilizations. I also enjoy creating panoramic compositions... But not just... Here you will find landmarks, landscapes and cityscapes, ancient ruins and modern buildings, moons and seas, planes and boats, guns and flowers, animals and machines, forests and deserts, vanguard and prehistory, digital and film, color and black & white, graves and newborns, temples, trenches, palaces, castles, tanks, churches, bunkers... However, they have some things in common: they are meaningful images and they are for the most part unique. W. W.