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To: SunkenCiv

She doesn’t look Athenian...


9 posted on 10/27/2024 3:05:10 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: Adder

It appears that the copper-lookin’ guy on the right was painted using a bronze statue for a model, a practice used by other fresco artists (or indeed, the same guy in multiple houses, probably was well known and in demand).

The Romans really liked Greek sculpture and had plenty of that done, but bronze replicas were preferred for private villas particularly if they were to be displayed outdoors. And like the marble originals, they were painted to look more real (kinda like concrete lawn critters are today).

During the Middle Ages quite a lot of Roman-era marble statuary was basically heisted, dragged off to workshops, and put into a kiln to be rendered into lime for mortar. What an atrocity.


15 posted on 10/27/2024 7:29:28 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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