Est-il possible de visiter la grotte de Lascaux ?
Est-il possible de visiter la grotte de Lascaux ?
La grotte de Lascaux est ouverte toute l'année. La visite dure 1h30 et s'effectue en petit comité pour assurer de bonnes conditions de sécurité sanitaires. Un guide vous accompagne pendant toute la visite. Il est donc disponible pour répondre à toutes vos questions.
Quand furent réalisées les peintures de la grotte de Lascaux ?
La grotte de Lascaux, en Dordogne, est un ensemble composé de salles et de galeries souterraines dont plusieurs secteurs sont ornés de peintures murales que l'on situe généralement entre 20 0 av.
What materials were used in the Lascaux cave paintings?
- The materials used in the cave paintings were natural pigments, created by mixing ground up natural elements such as dirt, red ochre, and animal blood, with animal fat, and saliva. They applied the paint using a hand-made brush from a twig, and blow pipes, made from bird bones, to spray paint onto the cave wall.
Who discovered the Lascaux caves?
- Map of Lascaux cave. The Lascaux caves were discovered by chance on Septem by seventeen year-old Marcel Ravidat, accompanied by three of his friends: Jacques Marsal, Georges Agnel, and Simon Coencas.
Who created the Lascaux cave paintings?
- The Lascaux cave paintings were added to the list of World Heritage Sites created by UNESCO . The paintings were found in the year 1940 on September 12 by 4 teenagers named Simon Coencas, Marcel Ravidat, Georges Agnel and Jacques Marsal.
Who painted the Lascaux cave?
- Marcel Ravidat, who in 1940 discovered the Lascaux cave paintings whose brilliantly colored renderings of prehistoric animals had been sealed from view for 17,000 years, died on Wednesday at his home in the village Montignac in the Dordogne region of southwestern France. He was 72.
