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© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Omeka ID 2600
Calapatà o Roca dels Moros
Prehistory

cave painting with the representation of a deer

MAC BCN-021997, MAC BCN-021998, MAC BCN-021999

Object type
rock painting
Production date
-8200 / -4500
Fabric
-
Museum
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Culture
Prehistory
Discovery location
Calapatà o Roca dels Moros
Materials
limestone
Township
Cretas (Europa, Espanya, Aragó, Terol)
Technique
painting
Where is it?
Exposició permanent
Dimensions
340 x 370 mm, 420 x 430 mm, 300 x 360 mm
Description
Original fragments with paintings of three Levantine deer of great naturalism and delicate treatment of shapes, proportion and expressiveness. Two are in a walking position and the other is lying down. They show a large number of anatomical details, such as the ears, legs, hooves and branched antlers. The colour used in all of them is red. The paintings in the Cave of the Moors, in Calapatà de Cretas Ravine (Matarranya), were discovered by Juan Cabré in 1903 and are the first paintings that were identified a new artistic style: Levantine rock art. The three deer, the main and central figures in the ensemble, which was formed by other figures, together with a figure of a wild boar, were removed by J. Cabré for his collection, arguing that they were in danger, and sold to the Barcelona Museums Board with other objects, for 14,000 pesetas in 1918.

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