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6/22/2025, 11:40:48 AM
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>It helps that they make the "reconstructions" look deliberately shitty to provoke a reaction instead of assuming there were more layers and blending than survived to the present era
Because they have exactly 0 evidence for any layers and blending.
Assuming things away is what gets you History Channel documentaries about aliens building the pyramids.
The reconstructions are always explicit in the fact they show ONLY things we are certain of. We are certain they were almost all painted and we know about these color layers. Anything beyond that is purely a matter of your own beliefs.
We don't have examples of Greco-Roman statues with preserved colors, we do have examples of both garish and realistic statues in later eras both in Europe and elsewhere.
What the Greeks or Romans did with them or how/if it differed as their preferences and fashion changed is hence an unknown.
>It helps that they make the "reconstructions" look deliberately shitty to provoke a reaction instead of assuming there were more layers and blending than survived to the present era
Because they have exactly 0 evidence for any layers and blending.
Assuming things away is what gets you History Channel documentaries about aliens building the pyramids.
The reconstructions are always explicit in the fact they show ONLY things we are certain of. We are certain they were almost all painted and we know about these color layers. Anything beyond that is purely a matter of your own beliefs.
We don't have examples of Greco-Roman statues with preserved colors, we do have examples of both garish and realistic statues in later eras both in Europe and elsewhere.
What the Greeks or Romans did with them or how/if it differed as their preferences and fashion changed is hence an unknown.
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