acheiropoietos:hiphopocliedes:mutamur:Make Antiquity Gaudy Again ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪¸¸.Th
acheiropoietos:hiphopocliedes:mutamur:Make Antiquity Gaudy Again ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪¸¸.These recreations r so dumb tho…like r we expected to believe that grks & Romans, who made portraits as paintings & even mosaic copies of paintings w super lifelike shading would have gone to the effort of carving a marble statue of a God and then just painting the whole skin the same one shade of pink lmaoyeah this person is right…when we see reconstructions like this it seems like an archaeologist found one bit of red paint on a sculpture and assumed the entire thing must have been the same flat red instead of like.. an art historian looking at it and having an understanding of the visual culture at the time. like we just have to look at things like the fayum portraits to know what was up. anyways. i still support this movementYeah like…this is more anti-the neoclassical obsession I see in classics posts on tumblr than a love of these recreations…that’s the moodAnd it’s really not about historical accuracy for me as much as literally cringing about the ideas of purity people attach(ed) to the blank white marble -- source link