EPTUltraviolet light reveals colors of Greek statues - Page 5
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dudeman001
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semantics
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On August 26 2010 01:25 dudeman001 wrote: Wooooooah wtf. I had no idea that the statues were actually colored at one point. Still, the Greek's sense of art is... interesting to say the least. Not my particular brand of coloring. Coloring is very hard back in the day esp paintings, i think one type of blue you had to crush a precious stone and make it into a paint to get a certain type of blue crap like that. | ||
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Nub4ever
Canada1981 Posts
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Z3kk
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geetarzero
United States217 Posts
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toadstool
Australia421 Posts
also, it probably would have looked cool in the 70's. | ||
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scyfir
United States40 Posts
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Simplistik
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What's the point then? | ||
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Therick
Norway324 Posts
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Go0g3n
Russian Federation410 Posts
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dogabutila
United States1438 Posts
On August 25 2010 18:32 okum wrote: You also thought the world was in sepia tone before the 20th century? I mean, TV didn't have color until relatively recently...why should the rest of the world have color? | ||
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Spiffeh
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zuqbu
Germany797 Posts
imagine you buy a bike, and it has a carbon fibre wheel fork, then most manufacturers leave it unpainted, and to modern viewers the bike has a higher valued look, because they can see that it's not aluminium, but the more expensive carbon. for an ancient viewer, an unpainted item will have a lower value, because the costs of painting something were higher than choosing a different material. the statues were build to worship gods and display power, and colour was very expensive and a rare luxury. having a coloured statue of yourself, is probably the ancient equivalent of driving a ferrari. | ||
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Mawi
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