• MataVatnik@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    You know how Roman statues were actually painted bright colors? In ancient times pubes were actually glued onto the groins of sculpted figures, unfortunately with weathering over time most of these sculptures lost their pubes

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      3 months ago

      Not Roman, Greek. The Greek sculptures were painted. Roman sculptors found the Greek marble beautiful without paint, and didn’t paint theirs.

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        Wikipedia disagrees: Roman Sculpture

        Most statues were actually far more lifelike and often brightly colored when originally created; the raw stone surfaces found today is due to the pigment being lost over the centuries.

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        One of Ceasar’s statue was found to have pigment residues. You can find an image of how it would’ve looked like when it was painted.