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thunderstruck9 · 4 months

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Theo Stiphout (Dutch, 1913-2002), Landscape near Neffe (Dinant), c.1951. Oil on canvas, 50.1 x 40 cm.

#theo stiphout #dutch art #landscape #house #road #trees #valley #telegraph poles #dinant #neffe

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gfxced · 1 year

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This isn't a drone shot. (this was not a Magritte reference)

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#black and white #dinant #belgium

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wgm-beautiful-world · 2 months

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D I N A N T

#dinant #walloon #belgium #belgica #europe #europa

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vincentcroce · 9 months

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Dinant at dusk

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naturalsciencesbelgium · 1 year

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🐂 This is the famous Chaleux stone, one of the biggest pieces of Belgian’s ‘portable art’ (that could be carried from place to place). The slab is part of our collections and exhibited in the Gallery of Humankind.🐂

It was found in the region of Dinant and dates back to 12,000 to 13,000 years ago, from the so-called Magdalenian culture. Think: end of the last glacial period, the extinction of mammoths and Lascaux and Altamira cave art. Portable art was the result of carving or engraving bone, antler, ivory or stone. Some examples, like the Chaleux stone, are the earliest traces of realism in art.

The object also gives us a glimpse of the biodiversity of that period. 🌿

The front side of the slab shows an auroch, an wild ancestor of our modern cattle. Aurochs were among the largest herbivores at that time: a shoulder height of up to 180 cm in bulls, and weighing up to 1300 kilos. It also had massive elongated and broad horns that reached 80 cm in length. This animal must have been an impressive sight! European aurochs went extinct a long time ago due to human activities: habitat loss and over-hunting.

Behind it you can see another animal, with antlers, that already roamed our regions during the Paleolithic : the forest reindeer. During prehistoric times, forest reindeers used to populate multiple regions across western Europe. Contrary to the aurochs, the species survived and is still found in smaller areas of Scandinavian and Karelian forests. 🦌🌲

On the other side of the stone: a wild horse, a standing ibex and one lying down. Can you spot them? 👀 We have scanned Belgian portable art so you can admire them in 3D: paleo-art.naturalsciences.be. There is even an anthropomorphic statuette (a Venus)!

https://paleo-art.naturalsciences.be/

[First picture by visitor @dis_oakenshield on Instagram]

#museum #museumvisitor #chaleuxstone #art #prehistoric art #dinant #belgium #archeology #history #portable art #prehistoric

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vainaspaver · 4 months

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