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tons of pagan roman and greek statues were destroyed. what's left today is only a tiny amount
by cblconfederate 5y ago
tons of pagan roman and greek statues were destroyed. what's left today is only a tiny amount
- atdrummond 5y agoI agree? My original reply’s point was we have a very small minority of what the empire constructed. And much of that is because it was purposely preserved, if for alternative reasons.
- pmontra 5y agoAnd basically all of them lost their paint. What we admire is only the shape of what the artists created, not the full creation. https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/gods-in-color-ancient-world-polychromy/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/gods-in-color-ancient-...
- ciphol 5y agoThose garish colors probably aren't the real colors either. The researchers found one speck of paint and assumed the whole surface was the same color, when in reality the paint probably had complex gradations of color, like any normal painting. There is no need to assume the painting was less sophisticated than the sculpture underneath it.