{"id":131363,"date":"2016-08-27T00:42:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T06:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/27\/ancient-sculpture-is-not-a-matter-of-gray-and-white.html"},"modified":"2016-08-27T00:42:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T06:42:27","slug":"ancient-sculpture-is-not-a-matter-of-gray-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/27\/ancient-sculpture-is-not-a-matter-of-gray-and-white.html","title":{"rendered":"Ancient sculpture is not a matter of gray and white"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greeks and Romans both painted their marble (etc.) statuary. It&#39;s just that the paint has faded and worn off over the millennia since, leaving modern audiences to consider their white marble and other stone to be a &quot;classic&quot; look, whereas the ancients would have considered that as unfinished and odd as we consider office buildings wreathed in colorful insulation panels before being covered over and painted a nicely neutral tone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/5616498\/ultraviolet-light-reveals-how-ancient-greek-statues-really-looked'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/UZnmw5RXt0DqyGeYoH3nCFH_gLgOKo0cDOWGUw_OZNaP9zUbQLAx23RoQgw-UZtx_nFVk-PbW4750WqcB9Am0NtSHKJfms94OmS1slLLL6Wu5rYAM7VMWwODtknz8CA9vdf2bF8WRbpXiIlfoje83z7l0JjHEPI2ZElq3s5d0QP3CT9LGWRo5FgwkQHAA5a3tETqMj0=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/5616498\/ultraviolet-light-reveals-how-ancient-greek-statues-really-looked'>Ultraviolet light reveals how ancient Greek statues really looked<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nOriginal Greek statues were brightly painted, but after thousands of years, those paints have worn away. Find out how shining a light on the statues can be all that&#8217;s required to see them as they were thousands of years ago.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/UWrrgSKYYpt'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greeks and Romans both painted their marble (etc.) statuary. It&#39;s just that the paint has faded and worn off over the millennia since, leaving modern audiences to consider their white marble and other stone to be a &quot;classic&quot; look, whereas the ancients would have considered that as unfinished and odd as we consider office &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/27\/ancient-sculpture-is-not-a-matter-of-gray-and-white.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ancient sculpture is not a matter of gray and white&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133421,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/07\/the-multi-colored-world-of-the-mediterranean.html","url_meta":{"origin":131363,"position":0},"title":"The Multi-Colored World of the Mediterranean","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-May-17 11:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There's a certain amount of truth to the idea that the Roman (and, to a lesser extant, Greek) use of marble, with the painted pigments of the era worn and washed away over the centuries, provides a peculiarly white view of classical antiquity. 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