Nuovi dipinti preistorici in Lucania

Biancofiore, Franco

Atti della Accademia nazionale dei Lincei. Rendiconti della Classe di scienze fisiche, matematiche e naturali, Série 8, Tome 39 (1965) no. 5, pp. 317-320.

Résumé

The Author briefly describes the new rock-paintings discovered in the “abri sous roche” in the “Tuppo dei Sassi” mountain near Filiano (Potenza, Southern-Italy) on the 2nd of October 1965. There are recognizable hunting scenes in which to the three couples consisting of a hunter and an animal, is added a human figure standing above. As to the style, the paintings are included in the ensemble of the schematic figurative production that affirmed itself as expressive style in the Mediterranean countries after the VI millennium B. C. The character of the locality where they were found and the technique approach the lucan paintings to Iberian schematism and Mediterranean art in general. The contents of the paintings recall a world different from the palaeolithic world, for, as the exigency of palaeolithic art is to represent the animal as the symbol of life needs, the schematic art, with the representation of the man-animal relationship, suggest the idea of a civilization in which man is the preminent element in objective reality.