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To: SunkenCiv

How much of the statues were painted - all of it, including clothing?


10 posted on 10/25/2015 11:37:47 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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To: Cowboy Bob

All of them — same way that those lawn gnomes are painted today. :’)

The Elgin Marbles, which were removed from the Parthenon early in the 19th c, wound up at the British Museum. Some touch-holes there didn’t like the remains of the original paint job (from the 5th c BC), and over the decades various methods (scraping, sanding, acid) have been used to remove the paint and the accumulated weathering.


12 posted on 10/25/2015 12:00:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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