They look better with no paint.
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>let's ruin these amazing marble sculptures by slapping some shitty paint on it
what the frick were they thinking
Because that's not what they did. The old paint jobs were elegant. The new paint jobs are done by diversity students doing rush jobs.
Actually they were painted better than that
this
The reconstructions are based on fragments of the undercoat remaining in microscopic cracks and holes in the marble. They were sculpted to be lifelike, I expect they were painted to be also.
They would look decent if painted properly by master painters.
No they don't.
Here's an authentic Hellenistic statue that retained it's paint; it looks good.
Based on style, I'm fairly certain this is an Etruscan cenotaph.
If so, it's not just painted. It's also the materials they used.
Wow
That is just stunning
people wanked to this?
no they had sex in the ancient world, these statues are just for decoration
how did it retain the paint?
they really look just like christian saints statues
Christian saints statues are part of this tradition. I don't mean that in a vague all-statues-are-the-same way either. Catholicism is a living remainder of the Roman Empire and continues certain Roman traditions, these statues being one of them.
And where do you think those come from?
It looks like trash
No, they actually look great, painted:
Modern academics are just stupid, at reconstructing the color.
Also,as an extra, the romans had ancient Malls, that's where this statue you are going to see was.
On right is statue of Priapus
That's gayreek
Gayreeks sucked at sculpture. Unlike Roman BVLLS who were the masters of Arts and crafts. Their sculptures were unmatched until the renaissance came.
Most "roman" painters and sculptors were actually greco-anatolian imports.
Most "Roman" sculptures we have, are actually copies of original greek statues that didn't survive.
Most of them are not even original, only a minority of percentage are.
They were painted to look realistic and lifelike, academics are just the bad kind of autistic and made them look that way instead.
>academics are just the bad kind of autistic and made them look that way instead
They make them look that way because, like another said, only fragments of the first base layer remain, and the detailing that was lost to time was on top of those base layers. Researchers can't just go around painting the statues how they think it looked, they are only showing the base layers they are sure were present. For example, Augustus Prima Porta was probably the main propaganda tool of Augustus, as attested by the sheer amount of versions and fragments of that particular statue all across the Empire, and one reconstruction of a example found in Rome in the 19th century is picrel. The Emperor himself has the means to commission life like depictions of himself, it plain dumb to think the colours would look as gaudy and simplistic as they do on the reconstruction. For example, his hair would not be that solid brown but rather have streaks of lighter brown or blonde, since that's how his hair was described by Suetonius. Subflavum, bellow brown, and not xanthos, which we think refers to the mote golden blonde.
That's all well and good and I realize that but why NOT just take the extra step and do a version based on how they guessed it might have looked? They could still have the solid color ones that they knew for sure, too. Again, the bad kind of autism.
>Researchers can't just go around painting the statues how they think it looked
Why
They absolutely can. Making of archeologic replicas has always been very speculative since there rarely is much to be truly sure about.
Where did the baby go?
Roman pagan sacrifice to correct the mistakes of scholars and finally, see what the color that people saw 2000 years ago.
Unfortunately the baby had to be sacrificed for that.
Damn I miss that lil dude already
No one knows.
lol
That's a decent reconstruction, I wasn't aware of that. I've seen some pieces that were painted with more details like picrel, Caligula
No. They would absolutely look good painted. The problem is that these idiots tried to paint the statues themselves, instead of letting an actual artist do it. Of course it looks bad.
What they don't tell you about these restorations is that they can only recover pigments from the bottom layer of paint, so the "restoration" is only like 25% of the detail
how come white nationalists look at these facial features and come to the conclusion that this does not bear resemblance to modern day Italians. I don't get it
Oh that's easy, they don't say that at all.
Most of these white nationalists are germoids who can't cope with the fact that they had no civilization and lived in mud huts while the peoples who lived in the Mediterranean where building the foundations of the modern western civilization.
Let me guess, you’re a Latinx
germanics have been dominating civilisation for the last 500 years I don't think they care. This is like saying the romans were seething about the sumerians and egyptians lol
british and germans are celtoid mutts, let alone israelites, french, italians, corsicans
It is because they are painting them with only one pigment. They take a pigment sample and then like using the bucket tool on MS paint they just lather it over everything where it looks like it would remotely fit. Naturally anything panted in this manner would look terrible. An artist however knows to use different pigments even for the same colour.
nah, the issue is they let tallentless hacks paint them instead of hiring golden demon winners to make them look perfect.
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/05/01/golden-demon-at-warhammer-fest-2023-winners-revealed/
Lol
you can tell this is done in purpose by funny nosed people
it was made by germans
>the entire hellenistic marble white aesthetic is ahistorical and built around the fact that dumb renaissance people didn't know that paint existed in roman times
The absolute state of larpers
I'm sure there would have been a decent amount of unpainted statues, too. Perhaps the ancient Romans argued on their forums about which approach was superior, much like we do today.
The collosus of Nero is an example of an unpainted statue:
>https://colosseum.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/COLOSSUS-RECONSTRUCTED.jpg_large.jpg
You can even compare the painted statues of the colliseum with the unpainted collosus.
It was just gold, like the sun.
Porcelain is the way.
Reminder Mesoamerican structures, sculptures, etc were also richly painted
Very gaudy. I’m glad they collapsed.
Acquire taste
The garish opulence is part of the appeal.
metallic flakes or crushed mica was even worked into some of the paint so stuff would glitter, plus iridescent feathers were used to cover garments, warsuits, shields, textiles, etc.
Place looks nice. When they need water do they drink the water around them or use a cistern or well?
The Lake system was mostly pretty shallow and brackish and swampy, though some parts of it less so due to being fed by springs.
The largest lake, which Tenochtitlan was in the middle of, was modified with levees/dikes and other systems so it would be freshwater, though actual drinking water was brought in from aqueducts that ran along causeways into the city from the shorelines
Most notably Chapultepec (a hilltop forest retreat used by kings on the western side of the valley) had a spring which fed the main aqueduct, which had twin channels or pipes (there's inconsistent information about if it was stone channels or ceramic piping) that brought water in, see pic;
holy shit its been years since I entered his and here I find you, the aztec autist that always puts their indian crap when no one asked for it, frick you
imagine the mosquitos...
Tenochtitlan was too high in altitude for mosquitoes, actually.
They did have some “water flies”, though, which were harvested for their eggs to produce a kind of caviar.
>a lake city at a high enough altitude mosquitos wouldn't be a problem
Yes.
They wouldn't be.
At least not that much.
if this is true, then why are mosquitoes present in Mexico City now? I also think they belong to a different species from my hometown (Monterrey) due to the bites behaving differently
>collapsed
homie they got conquered
Tenochtitlan in color:
>https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxdyeaWWwAIkCq0?format=jpg&name=large
>https://twitter.com/AztecEmpire1520/status/1590193593377259520/photo/1
>https://twitter.com/AztecEmpire1520/status/1578874442050334720
>https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/images-7/735_05_2.jpg
>https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/images-7/735_11_2.jpg
>https://www.mediastorehouse.com/p/617/reconstruction-consecration-ceremony-templo-mayor-9512765.jpg.webp
>https://pyramidomania.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Teotihuacan-recreated-950x500.jpg
Comparison of Aztec's territory on Europe:
https://twitter.com/AztecEmpire1520/status/1491597659399876608
Explain the bottom right in pic related
>breast ptosis
Cute blue nipples
>ptosis
>cute
>ever
I'm not totally familiar with the specifics, but that's the Red Temple, which I believe is an altar from one of the Templo Mayor's earlier construction phases.
The red/white/black circles are potentially eye-star motifs, or are representations of jade/preciousness, though I think that's more likely for the pure red circles on the railing, which more closely match preciousness-circles seen on the roof trims of a lot of buildings.
This paper: https://www.academia.edu/39243040/Teotihuacan_in_Mexico_Tenochtitlan_Recent_Discoveries_New_Insights, which I've read before, and this one: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Red-Temple-with-Teotihuacan-style-ta-ud-and-tab-ero-and-paintings-of-bands-with-eyes_fig8_285512893 which I haven't, point out that the altar is a specific revival of Teotihuacano architecture/art motifs, which is something you see the Mexica do a lot of (they did excavations at Teotihuacan and brought back artifacts to Tenochtitlan, other ceramics and sculptures were modelled after Teotihuacan examples; and Tenochtitlan's urban layout also revives some previously teotihuacan specific traits), off the top of my head the Talud-Tablero style paneling is a Teotihuacano style trait, and feathered serpent muraling on the Talud above the shell-mural tablero also looks to be drawn in a more Teotihuacano style.
actually I guess the second link does call the circles on the sides eyes, so there you go
Nah
I like the white out and the highly detailed color versions
What about white statues but colored clothes??