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To: SunkenCiv

That doesn’t mean that it couldn’t be a medieval copy of a roman copy of an etruscan original.

A lot of our ancient greek statues turned out to be roman copies of greek originals.


12 posted on 07/11/2008 7:42:34 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: sinanju

That’s very true. By Roman times, the Greeks had been making bronze statues for foreign markets, including the Etruscans, for a while, but they weren’t the only ones making bronzes. If memory serves, there’s at least one surviving Roman marble copy of a Greek bronze original, and one of the Pompeiian frescoes depicts a mythological scene, and one of the characters appears to be a painting made from a bronze statue for its original. :’)


14 posted on 07/11/2008 7:47:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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