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caligula had anime eyes

wait romans painted their marble sculptures

it looks like a cheap theme park ride mascot

yep

here’s a statue of Augustus

and here’s a reproduction of the statue with the colors restored 

i honestly think that what we consider the height of sculpture in all of Western civilization being essentially the leftover templates of gaudy pieces of theme park shit to be evidence of the potential merit of found art

“I tried coloring it and then I ruined it”

And you know what the funniest part is? The paint didn’t just wear off over time. A bunch of asshole British historians back in the Victorian era actually went around scrubbing the remaining paint off of Greek and Roman statues – often destroying the fine details of the carving in the process – because the bright colours didn’t fit the dignified image they wished to present of the cultures they claimed to be heirs to. This process also removed visible evidence of the fact that at least some of the statues thus stripped of paint had originally depicted non-white individuals.

Whenever you look at a Roman statue with a bare marble face, you’re looking at the face of imperialist historical revisionism.

(The missing noses on a lot of Egyptian statues are a similar deal. It’s not that the ancient Egyptians made statues with strangely fragile noses. Many Victorian archaeologists had a habit of chipping the noses off of the statues they brought back, then claiming that they’d found them that way – because with the noses intact, it was too obvious that the statues were meant to depict individuals of black African descent.)

its been a long time since i had the blog that originally posted this but this was one of the most popular posts on it and lemme just say that getting notes day after day from people reblogging this bunch of smug-ass uncited pseudo-historical bullshit what cracked.com article did you get this from what checkout-aisle trivia book piece of medievalpoc-grade shit did you get this from the notes there were so many notes it was suffering it was suffering    like     hoooly shit     do you think 19th century british people were the first ones to have looked at greek and egyptian statues in thousands of years is that what you really think have you fucking heard of the rennaisance im sure you heard of it did time travelling victorian people go back in time and wreck statues or something how fucking ironically-eurocentric do you have to be to not think local people knew about egyptian statues and monuments it was suffering it made me understand the meaning of suffering you white guilt milqutoast piece of human garbage make me an enchillada              fuck              you       

Am I the only one who wonders if the colors were painted like… with that particular low level of technique/blockiness in terms of color because like

The Romans knew about shading and tonal variation

(art from Pompeii)

Roman mosaic:

So I feel like the colors used being that flat is unlikely