Interactive: The Revelation of the Human Face
Host Simon Schama argues this 25,000 year-old sculpture found in France represents the dawn of the idea of beauty.
La Dame de Brassempouy was found in a cave in south western France in 1892. She’s thought to be between 22,000 and 25,000 years old. It is an object that may embody our earliest understanding of perfection. It is one of the very first deliberate representations of beauty.
Columbia University scholar Simon Schama explores this early piece of civilization.
