Feb 01
World’s Earliest Figurative Sculpture Found? Also: T.S. Eliot, Tattoo History And More Arts News
Posted in: Today's ChiliWorld’s Earliest Figurative Sculpture Turns Out To Be Adorable: A “lion man” carved from mammoth ivory has been is being removed from the British Museum’s “Ice Age Art” exhibition after new fragments were found that gave researchers pause. As it turns out, the relic of the ice age dates back about 40,000 years.
In 1939, around 200 fragments of the “lion man” were first discovered in the back of a German cave, leaving 30% of the sculpture’s volume unfinished. Now 1,000 more fragments have been discovered, the larger of which are being reintegrated into the sculpture. “It is an enormous 3D puzzle,” said the British Museum curator Jill Cook. (The Art Newspaper)
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