Multicoloured antiquity
 

Article as exhibition is quite old - 2008.

Art historians have always known that the Greeks and Romans painted statues, it is with time they reopened in his classic white.
Now a research team from Harvard University , originally launched in Arthur M. Sackler Museum of the university had been working on the reconstruction of color aktichnoy sculpture. The main project was an enthusiastic German specialist Professor Vincenzo Brinkmann , who developed the method of work .

Its results were presented at the exhibition Gods In Colour: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity ", which was held in the United States and in many European museums .

Caligula is particularly impressive . Habitual unpainted bust shows a much more mature man. And then - a boy . vicious boy .

Another part of the images taken отсюда.

Once neukladyvaetsya in mind that all the sculptures were painted . Why , then, in the conventional sense dolzhy sculptures were to be unpainted white marble , but the realities and have to believe it's true. Apparently in ancient times it was common, painting sculptures as examples .. painted sculptures of ancient Egypt , Mesopotamia , and medieval nomads painted their idols ..

Yes, just clear and estesstvenno . For them, it was not art , especially art.
The idea of ​​the statue and the best achievement - that " as a living ."
The biggest praise artist ( Zeuxis ) " birds come to peck painted grapes ."
And remember Pygmalion , he's not in love with white marble , and is evident in naturalistic dummy <! - ~ 7 ~ ->