How could they fuck up so bad? Who the fuck paints freakin Parian marble? That's like putting an Anonymous mask on God's face.
I thought Ancient Rome and Greece were pinnacles of civilization?
Jupiter, get a grip...
Oh. My. Gods.
>>934987
Your modern sensibilities have blinded to you to the differences between us and them.
>>934987
color and pigment were commodities
Rome and Greece were so rich that they painted useless shit like statues as a way of saying "Hey fuckers, look how fancy we are"
>>934987
They were wealthy, decadent peoples, but we expect them to have lived in boring marble white cities. It's not surprising at all that they would color their statues and their temples.
>>934987
>public art must be absolutely sterile
bait better pls
>>934987
It brings the statue to life.
>>934987
The coloring was better at the time, the reprodution process doesn't pick up all the details.
If the paint had stayed, today we'd be talking about how bland and ugly unpainted marble is.
>>934987
Whoever did this has obviously never painted a 3d object.
The colours are flat. Im 99% sure the artists of the original painting knew how to shade when painting.
>>934987
Is the child abnormally small or is Caesar abnormally big?
>>937375
For you
>>937375
That's his undeveloped Siamese twin brother bro
>>937077
This
>>937380
i actually chuckled.
baneposting will never get old
you need colour, sculpture is a depressing meme without it
>>937394
It honestly won't. Best meme.
Loss is also up there, but only with clever edits.
>>934987
Statues today are also painted and it doesnt feel weird at all. Its just that you are used to unpainted antique statues
Goddamn, it's disgusting.
Neoclassicism got it best. Ignorance is bliss.
>>937312
It's almost definitely an accurate reconstruction of the base coat.
>>937988
Those statues are cheap plaster.
We're talking about marble here. You don't paint Pentelic marble. It's an insult.
>>938012
>You don't paint Pentelic marble.
Unless you're from classical antiquity, apparently.
>>934987
>forming an opinion on the past based on a modern reconstruction
> forming an opinion on the past based on modern sensibilities and taste
>>934987
Bet you're a realism pleb.
It was probably painted better back then desu. Modern recreations are like someone tried to Ms paint fill in large areas
>>934987
At least blm can´t claim they were black anymore...
>>937988
I don't know where the fuck you found those statues but most statues today are completely gray, black, white or gold. I live in a place which is full of statues and I've never seen any that was painted
>>938971
>Modern recreations are like someone tried to Ms paint fill in large areas
No, it's actually accurate, only it's just the basal coat. If you look at a modern work with only the first layer painted it wouldn't look any better.
>>938995
So this isn't accurate to what it would actually look like. Phew.
>one arguable paper on this subject
>his pictures are used everywhere forever
gg no re
>>938225
This.
>>941148
That column just gave me hope again.
>>941148
Oh man that is such shitty perspective.
Brunelleschi could not have been born early enough.
>>941148
Why did Romans like the color red so much?
>>938995
Yeah I figured that but good clarification
>>941558
It's a nice colour
>>941558
Apparently at various periods they had sumptuary laws regarding the colours of clothing to be worn by different social classes.
We still associate purple with aristocracy.
>>941606
Until just a while ago purple was expensive AF to make.
>>934987
could it be that marble just happened to be the best material for realistic statues at the time? I don't see it being made in clay or any other stone if you want it to be solid and easy to detail
>>941881
Granite, maybe.
>>941901
>>941904
>>937997
That looks dope regardless of value.
The other stuff not so much
>>934997
Trajan's column was more historical reference, or a true historical monument meant to edify the people than a piece of art in its time.
>>941558
Red was pretty cheap and inexpensive to make.
>>937312
why would you need to shade a 3D object, doesn't the fact that it's 3D do that for you?
