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Those look much better than the colored statues in the original article. Any idea if the difference is due to the lighting, the quality of the job, or historic
by sbov 16y ago
Those look much better than the colored statues in the original article. Any idea if the difference is due to the lighting, the quality of the job, or historical accuracy?
- Luc 16y agoHere's a different couple of reconstructions: http://www.leica-microsystems.com/news-media/our-customer-magazines/resolution-materials-technology/materials-technology-resolution-no-4/ancient-feast-of-colour/ http://www.leica-microsystems.com/news-media/our-customer-ma... I think the ones in the original article are painted on plaster replicas and the lighting is horrid compared to the professionally lit marble sculptures. It does seem hard to believe the artists would have caked on 'fond de teint' on the face and arms of the statue like in the reconstruction, without any subtlety, and losing all the lovely skin-like glow of marble.
- greendestiny 16y agoI imagine a huge number of shades and variations would give similar spectrograph results a couple of thousand years later.