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To: Jamestown1630

Pompeii guard dog mosaic back on show
Published 27 July 2015
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33677957


16 posted on 04/28/2022 8:32:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

That’s nice.

I like seeing these ancient things, and the hand and eye of the artist in them - but I’m really partial to the more ancient ones. It’s amazing to me that people as ‘primitive’ as those who did the cave paintings at Lascaux could depict animals - especially horses - as sensitively as they did:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lascaux+cave+paintings&t=brave&iax=images&ia=images


25 posted on 04/28/2022 8:55:14 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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