Fascinating! 👍😃
The Ancients loved color! Finding out about this is pretty great but I’m so used to white marbled statues it just doesn’t seem right to see them colored. I have seen so many exhibitions of Greek statues but I never never never even imagined any old sculpture being in color.
For centuries, we’ve assumed that the clean, white surfaces of ancient Greek sculptures were the standard of beauty; during the Renaissance, artists strove to emulate this simple aesthetic in their own art. Even today, we expect truly beautiful classical and ancient art to be pure and unadorned – but Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann have spent over two decades proving us wrong.
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I read about this in Nat Geo – funny how we’ve been wrong for millennia!
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Thanks for sharing — had to show moco-choco some love 🙂
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Indeed CM 😀
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Yes, from style of Egyptians many centuries before. Statues and building colored. Must have been a continuing public works project of artists to keep things gleaming.
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Interesting that the Asian Civilisations coloured their statues (and still do) Carl
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Awesome. They do look drab without the colors.
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👍😃
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