{The History of Art[:]}{The Paleolithic Period [continued (4)]}[7th November 1990]

[Redbook8:91][19901107:1007d]{The History of Art[:]}{The Paleolithic Period [continued (4)]}[7th November 1990]

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‘As it has no precursors, so Paleolithic art* has no direct descendants – the Mesolithic cultures that followed the Paleolithic in Europe produced little art and that of a simple and rudimentary type. With the exception of the narrative rock-shelter painting of the Spanish Levant, which has only tentative links with Paleolithic art, the naturalistic tradition died out completely at the end of the last Ice Age.’**

It is also limited to Spain, France and Switzerland (miniature, and mural, art); and Italy, Central Europe, European Russia, and Siberia (miniature art only).

*[See last previous entry]

**– ibid [The Encylopaedia of Visual Art] p3

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