Cueva de la Vieja (Alpera, Albacete). Juan Cabré Aguiló, 1911

Over more than two decades, between 1912 and 1936, the CIPP (commission for paleontological and prehistoric research) made a vast number of tracings and drawings of cave art paintings found in different areas of the Iberian Peninsula. The Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid has preserved thousands of these reproduction works, which constitute one of the most foremost collections of this kind in the world. The reproductions have been shown to the public for the first time in an exhibition that includes 127 tracings and drawings in an atmosphere that resembles that of the caves where they were created: a valuable artistic and scientific legacy of our prehistoric forbears...[+]