Mario Ruspoli

On September 12, in 1940, the Lascaux Cave was discovered by four boys near the French village of Montignac. The Cave contains a series of over 600 wall paintings, and is considered one of the world's finest collections of Paleolithic art.

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This is the Sistine Chapel of Cro-Magnon people. The Cave of Lascaux is part of the world's cultural heritage. The gallery of 10,000-17,000 year old art is now closed to the public for its preservation. The film-maker, Mario Ruspoli and a team of "lascau-nauts", recorded the art in the cave using cinecameras and equipment over a three-year period. He also composed the Corpus, with essays and history. Ruspoli died in 1986 just shortly before the work was published.

Previously, the Cave was closed by the Ice Age 10,000 years ago. Here is evidence of the hunting and fishing techniques, invention of the perforated needle, lamp, spear-thrower, harpoons and abstract sign language are scrolled open. The viewing may be designed, not as a series of fixed paintings, but as images in movement, glimpsed by initiates as they walked through the dark (183) clinging to a guide rope -- preserved in the Magdalenian clay and the oldest recovered vegetable fibre in the world. With fold-out Maps of this sanctuary and others decorated by Cro-Magnon man in Western Europe.… (mehr)