• Snowclone@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Go look up painted Greek statutes, it’s a nightmare of garish bullshit that makes the entire work look like utter dog shit. That’s how they’re ‘‘supposed’’ to look. All I’m saying is, people from the past seeing this might be down.

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      2 months ago

      Depends on which reconstruction you look at. For example, these two reconstructions of what the Augustus of Prima Porta (not Greek, but very close in style and the first one to come into my mind) might have looked are very different:

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      2 months ago

      a nightmare of garish bullshit that makes the entire work look like utter dog shit

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