Painted statues

[quislibet]

For those of you near Copenhagen, which does not include me even a little, there's an exhibit attempting to show how all of those white marble statues would have looked in antiquity before the paint faded with the centuries. See, e.g., here:

http://www.ctw.dk/Sider/Articles.html

(Scroll down.)

There's another website with some examples. The Prima Porta Augustus looks like he's getting all tarted up for a night out with Maecenas (scroll to end):

http://www.nyborg-gym.dk/uv/oldtidskundskab/classicolor/index.html

But I do like the cartoonishness of the Caligula head just above it, and the Aeginetan high elf commander in the middle of the page is pretty cool.

Some of them statues is nekkid.

Comments

[sorceror.livejournal.com]

Wow -- the Romans had elven archers?

No wonder they kicked so much ass. ^_^

ancient marbles

[julishka.livejournal.com]

their painted interpretation reminds me of the Pat Keck exhibit last fall at the decordova.

were the buildings painted, too? or just the sculptural decoration. if so, i imagine it looked pretty disneylandish.

[rojagato.livejournal.com]

Yikes! I'm imagining stumbling around with lead poisoning-induced dementia in a land of these painted statues.

Still, these are better than the modern attempts at colorization I've seen on people's front lawns.

keeping up w/the alexanders

[julishka.livejournal.com]

oh look, Brutus got a new lawn archer for his villa down by the via appia. it's not a garish as Marcus' discus thrower, either.

*giggle*

Re: ancient marbles

[sorceror.livejournal.com]

Apparently they were. Or at least, Ancient Egyptian buildings were -- I don't know about other ancient civilizations.

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

Who knew!?

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

The French Canadians.

Re: keeping up w/the alexanders

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of getting one of those funny Winged Victories that looks like it's crashing into the porch.

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

I'm imagining stumbling around with lead poisoning-induced dementia in a land of these painted statues.

Maybe that's what I need to do for proper Consuela inspiration.

Re: ancient marbles

[jdm314.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[rojagato.livejournal.com]

Maybe that's what I need to do

I hope you mean the imagining, not the actual lead poisoning.