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Well, certainly this has been known for quite awhile and hasn't really caught on as far as I know. I mean, people who care are fully aware, but I'm sure you're
by acheron 9y ago
Well, certainly this has been known for quite awhile and hasn't really caught on as far as I know. I mean, people who care are fully aware, but I'm sure you're right that any new scene depicting ancient Greece will have plenty of white marble. File it under Reality is Unrealistic. [1]
(Offhand I bet part of the issue is that the general culture probably doesn't make much distinction between classical statues and Renaissance or neoclassical statues and carvings, despite the couple millennia of separation. And obviously the Renaissance statues were not painted.)
[1] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealityIsUnrealistic http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealityIsUnrealis...
- colanderman 9y agoI wonder whether Renaissance statues were unpainted also due to influence from the "white" Greek statues.
- TomK32 9y agoRenaissance artists had plenty of chances to use colour in buildings and on canvas, maybe they wanted some contrast to that?
- labster 9y agoYes, definitely, both during the Renaissance and the Neoclassical eras. Works that would have been considered unfinished in the Classical era were appreciated in later periods for representing pure figures without the need for ostentation. Well, that and the Classical sculpture was pretty darned good.
- rsynnott 9y agoAlso, http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AluminumChristmasTrees http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AluminumChristmas...