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In fact I think we might even need more of these. How many people imagine ancient Roman architecture with white columns and white statues, when in fact there is
by runarberg 6y ago
In fact I think we might even need more of these. How many people imagine ancient Roman architecture with white columns and white statues, when in fact there is evidence those were painted in varied colors. Without tools to aid our imagination we have effectively bleached ancient Rome.
- anticristi 6y agoI can't agree more. I was shocked to find out statues were coloured and I still have trouble re-wiring my head around it.
- topkai22 6y agoI jumped on this thread to say exactly this. I visited the Vasa museum in Stockholm a few years back. The Vasa is an amazingly preserved shipwreck from the 1600s. There ship is mostly original and looks like bare brown wood like everyone imagines a shipwreck to look like. However, they have a model and reproductions of parts of the ship showing how they were brilliantly painted. The tour guide made clear that the aesthetic beauty and conspicuous consumption on display was as much a part of the kings arsenal as the cannons. It really changed the way i looked on the past.