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[Lion-Human], human with feline head, from Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany, three-quarter view, left side.
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Title
[Lion-Human]
,
human
with
feline
head
, from
Hohlenstein-Stadel
,
Germany
,
three-quarter
view
,
left
side
.
Date
30,000-28,000 BCE?
Cultural Context
German
European
Western European
Style/Period
Paleolithic
Upper Paleolithic
Stone Age
Prehistoric
Theme
Sculpture (visual work)
Statues
Statuettes (statues)
Figurines
Ivories (sculptures)
Carvings (visual works)
Figurative art
Figures (representations)
Three-quarter views
Oblique views
Profiles (figures)
Heads (representations)
Animals
Wild animals
Wildlife
Lions
Subject
Sculpture
Figurines
Human body
Heads (Anatomy)
Animals
Lions
Description
"
One
of the
earliest
sculptures
discovered
to
date
is
an
extraordinary
ivory
statuette
,
which
may
be as
old
as
30,000
BCE
, from a
cave
at
Hohlenstein-Stadel
in
Germany
.
Carved
out
of
mammoth
ivory
and
nearly
a
foot
tall
-
a
truly
huge
image
for its
era
-
the
statuette
represents
something
that
existed
only
in the
vivid
imagination
of the
unknown
sculptor
who
conceived
it
.
It
is
a
human
(whether
male
or
female
is
debated)
with a
feline
head
.
[…]
Such
composite
creatures
with
animal
heads
and
human
bodies
(and
vice
versa)
were
common
in the
art
of the
ancient
Near
East
and
Egypt
. In those
civilizations
,
surviving
texts
usually
allow
historians
to
name
the
figures
and
describe
their
role
in
contemporary
religion
and
mythology
. But for
Stone
Age
representations
,
no
one
knows
what their
makers
had in
mind
. The
animal-headed
humans
of
Paleolithic
art
sometimes
have been
called
sorcerers
and
described
as
magicians
wearing
masks
.
Similarly
,
Paleolithic
human-headed
animals
have been
interpreted
as
humans
dressed
up
as
animals
. In the
absence
of any
Stone
Age
written
explanations
-this
is
a
time
before
writing
,
before
(or
pre-)
history
-
researchers
can
only
speculate
on the
purpose
and
function
of a
statuette
such
as that from
Hohlenstein-Stadel
.
[…]
Art
historians
are
certain
,
however
, that
such
statuettes
were
important
to those
who
created
them,
because
manufacturing
an
ivory
figure
,
especially
one
a
foot
tall
, was a
complicated
process.
"
(Excerpt
,
p.17)
Material
Mammoth ivory
Ivory (tooth component)
Bone (material)
Measurements
11 5/8" high
Technique
Carving (processes)
Sculpting
Work Type
Sculpture
Figurines
Statues
Carvings (visual works)
Ivories (sculptures)
Repository
Ulmer Museum [Museum der Stadt Ulm] (Ulm, Germany)
Source
Kleiner, Fred S., and Christin J. Mamiya. Gardner's Art Through the Ages. 12th ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005. (fig.1-3, p.17)
Rights
Photo credit/reproduced in Kleiner courtesy: ©Ulmer Museum. Photo: Thomas Stephan.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
325-30.jpg
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