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The greeks and romans painted their statues to resemble real bodies and often gilded them so they shone like gods.
Painted roman marble statues. The myth of the white marble started during the renaissance when we first began unearthing ancient statues. Differences between greek and roman painted statues. But the truth is that both greek statues and their roman counterparts as you ll learn in the vox video above were originally brightly painted in riotous color. Mounted on a custom hand painted faux rouge marble base.
At one time this imitation was taken by art historians as indicating a narrowness of the roman artistic imagination but in the late 20th century. A very impressive pair of 19th century bronze statues of mercury and fortuna after giambologna. Augustus of prima porta the famous figure of the emperor standing triumphantly with one hand raised. Unfortunately most of the surviving classical sculpture are models made of marble the majority roman and their marble copies of original greek statuary.
Original greek statues were brightly painted but after thousands of years those paints have worn away. The paint has worn off leaving the aged statues with the familiar blank white appearance we ve become accustomed to. While the greeks tended to work with wood or bronze materials that do not survive sacks fires or the unforgiving time marble statuary. Find out how shining a light on the statues can be all that 39 s required to see them as.
The study of roman sculpture is complicated by its relation to greek sculpture many examples of even the most famous greek sculptures such as the apollo belvedere and barberini faun are known only from roman imperial or hellenistic copies. Hand carved italian solid carrara marble bust of a young man with flowing locks. So why is seemingly every museum on planet earth full of white marble sculptures. Now scholars are making a color correction.
Most of them had lost their original paint after centuries of exposure to the elements. This includes the 1st century a d. Greek and roman statues were often painted but assumptions about race and aesthetics have suppressed this truth.
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