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To: James C. Bennett
I'm guessing this is before they discovered the strategic value of camo...
54 posted on
08/20/2010 2:33:37 PM PDT by
Onelifetogive
(Seriously, do I need the sarc tag? You gotta be kiddin'!!!!)
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Thanks James C. Bennett for the topic and ping! I think I'd tried to convince some other FReeper in my passive-aggressive way to post this article, or one very like it, but they didn't do it. Now I know who to bug. ;') Thanks DCBryan1 for the additional ping!
Thanks wildbill: One wonders what was left of the original colors by the time of the Roman Empire and their admiration of all things Greek during the classical period. Did Pliny or any of the Roman commentators ever mention the colors on the statues. It's true -- the ancients had the same tastes as people today who have flamingos, gnomes, jockeys, and less edifying replicas in their front yards.
A number of the Greek statues admired by the Romans were copied in bronze, marble, or (2-dimensionally) as frescoes. At least two of the surviving frescoes in one of the towns buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD contains an apparent reproduction of a mythological scene, and the models used for some of the characters must have been (unpainted) bronze statues.
Bronze statues may have been painted as well, I don't know that I'd ever heard that one. They were given inlays to simulate human (and sometimes critter) eyes. Some of the marbles were as well. It's well known that the geniuses at the British Museum *sandblasted* the Elgin Marbles, which still had remnants of the original 5th c BC paint job. The (fairly) famous bust titled "So-Called Scipio Africanus", which was excavated at Pompeii or Herculaneum, has visible traces of paint, I think a number of those do.
BTW though, that was a great thought IMHO, did Pliny et al mention the practice. Apparently not, I doubt that it's even mentioned in Juvenal, and he loved to poke fun. It was probably so commonplace that no one even considered it worth writing down.
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60 posted on
08/20/2010 6:00:50 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
("The bad jazz a cat blows wails long after he's cut out." -- Lord Buckley)
To: James C. Bennett; SunkenCiv
Thanks for the post and ping. This is cool stuff!
The British were at times destructive, for sure, Civ. When they found the upper relieving chambers in the Great Pyramid they wrote graffiti on the walls to commemorate themselves.
To: Nightshift
62 posted on
08/20/2010 7:08:46 PM PDT by
tutstar
To: James C. Bennett
Excellent post. I was reading other information about this recently. Thanks. BTTT.
69 posted on
08/21/2010 12:56:13 AM PDT by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the occupation media. There are Wars and Rumors of War.)
To: James C. Bennett
Maybe they had a deeper appreciation of distinction ie. color. We think that blah is cool. I have always loved color and grow tired of modern man's idea that for things to be beautiful they must be dull.
70 posted on
08/21/2010 1:58:26 AM PDT by
Bellflower
(All meaning is in The LORD.)
To: James C. Bennett
Here is the authr’s name (it is hard to find): Esther Inglis-Arkell
74 posted on
08/21/2010 9:11:52 AM PDT by
PghBaldy
(Like the Ft Hood Killer, James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed MLK Jr.)
To: James C. Bennett; SunkenCiv
Thank you for posting this.
The Egyptian funerary portraits (painted in encaustic) are also very colorful.
Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits in Roman Egypt
This lady is wearing a beautiful shawl in a color a modern artist might describe as cobalt violet (was murex shell originally used?).
To: James C. Bennett
These are great.
Wish I had some large, high-resolution versions.
83 posted on
08/21/2010 9:24:35 PM PDT by
dsc
(Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
To: IncPen
interesting ping,
shield you eyes or skip #5
To: James C. Bennett
The sad part is that most people know the sttues were painted.
The British Museum spent a gread deal of time LITERALLY scrping off pristine paint off of statues. THEN they put acids to whiten the brown marbles.
why?
1. because it helped sell alibaster copies
and
2. it was easier to pull molds from the originals to sell to wealthy aristocrats.
This is particularly true with the stolen parthenon marbles in the british museum.
90 posted on
08/22/2010 1:41:31 PM PDT by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: James C. Bennett
That must be some UV light to make that quiver of arrows appear out of nowhere.
98 posted on
08/23/2010 6:51:01 PM PDT by
Redcitizen
(I saw Pirahna 3-D and my wallet felt the bite of a fishy plot.)
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