Immortality through Art-Famous Paintings

Exceptional art in all its forms (music, writing, painting, sculpting, architecture) transcends time, it endures; as a result it becomes immortal.

 

Among the most famous Paleolithic cave paintings I will name here the polychrome rock paintings of the Lascaux Caves in  Southwestern France, and Altamira caves in Northern Spain whose paintings are estimated to be 17,300 years old. The Lascaux Caves have nearly 2,000 figures which represent large animals, mostly horses, bulls, stags, human figures and abstract signs, some more beautiful than the others.

Have a look at the images of the  horse and the deer in Lascaux

and this bison in Altamira.

I am sure you will agree with me in that the Cro-Magnon peoples, who painted them in the Old Stone Age, had a genuine artistic skill and sense of color. Both Lascaux and Altamira caves , due to their outstanding cultural importance , belong to the common heritage of mankind.and are on UNESCO World Heritage List (http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/).

Botticelli’s Primavera (c 1482),

Da Vinci's Mona Lisa or La Gioconda (c 1507),

 

Rembrandt’s The Night Watch (1642),

 

 

Vermeer ‘s Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665),

 

Monet’s Mouth of the Seine (1865)

 

are just a few of the world painting masterpieces that long outlived their artists and thus became immortal.

 

The same goes for world famous sculptures, poems, novels, musical and architectural pieces. Regardless of their age they represent cultural "landmarks" and "milestones" in human creation which still inspire and amaze us all.