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Si****:

2:16 wow this can get me kicked out of art

Lo********************************:

Just found the theme my iOS thing gonna be colourful dull shaded Rome 00:45 - 00:54

pa**********:

4:10 "But when there aren't any visible colors, they have another tool"
Me: "Time machine"
"UV light"
Me: "Yeah, that."

Sa*******:

5:08 don't tell me that that's not Mark Zuckerberg

 

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Top Comments : [Vox] The white lie we've been told about Roman statues

mo**********:

A key fact that many people ignore is that for the longest time, western art's point of difference was seen as the absence of colour. They positioned it as the most "superior" artform. The discovery that these sculptures were pigmented rubbed many people the wrong way.

Er******:

The famous terracotta army in China is the same. Once colorful, the paint all broke off and left the statues solid brown.

Cr*********:

Errr I was told this 20 years ago... it's hardly a lie

ro**:

i want a little augustus statue with a painting set so i can paint it, museums should sell them

JB********:

Same with all of the Pyramids in Egypt. All are documented to be once covered in white marble with giant copper caps or crystal tops. It's super neato. Would be cool to see a film that shows the real depictions of the times.

AF******:

It’s like learning that the dinosaurs had feathers

Th*********:

Assassin's Creed covered this notion pretty well by portraying many ancients Greeks with many colors and dyes

Jd***:

Similarly, ancient buildings used to be riddled with jewels, colorful stones, and other adornments. Look at the ancient Temples of Southeast Asia like Bayon on Angkor Wat and you will find holes where jewels once resided before being robbed at later times.

El*:

I am Mexican, and something very similar happened with the frescoes in the parish of my municipality. These were very "Luxurious" and beautiful, but here it was not Hollywood but a bishop of the diocese. He said that "The church could not be a place of luxury but of humility" and had all the frescoes erased, applying white paint on them. I know because eons ago that bishop died, and now we have a completely different one, which allowed the priest in charge of the parish to make a collection for the restoration of the walls. They are very advanced (Almost ⅔ of the work).

If you are interested in knowing what it looks like, search in Google "Parroquia de Santa María de la Asunción, Tequisquiapan" (Parish of Santa María de la Asunción). Although I warn you that not all the images are up to date, some show the parish in white and others already restored.

Xa************:

Actually my middle school teacher taught us about Rome’s art, he did say that they used to paint the statues.

De******:

And some of the Pyramids of Giza had golden caps and a white limestone finish. It’s no wonder that over thousands of years these monuments would look so different from their original forms.

wh*******:

Didn’t know this was a secret. The signs at the museums alway say that the statutes used to be colorful.

Ir*****:

Fun fact, Caesar was pronounced ‘Kai-sar’. This is where the words ‘kaisar’, ‘Keizer’, ‘tsar’ and ‘czar’ come from

Ch********:

Caesar was not the first official Emperor of the Roman Empire. That was Augustus. However, Caesar was basically an Emperor in all but name.

Mi**********:

They teach the fact about colored statues in art schools. Problem is that even though the fact is spoken, it is hardly ever shown. They tell you statues used to be colored and then proceed to show you milions of white statues and thus the historic accuracy remains clouded. I like white marble staues, but art history cannot be about what you like, but about what is true.

GE**********:

Studying Latin taught me this. Additionally, sometime statues had eye holes where their irises should be. That was because originally they would have precious or semi precious stones in them like lapis lazuli for blue. Over the years thieves would steal such stones. And much pigment was artfully used to create life like visages as described in ancient texts. There were distinct differentiations of embellishment on these statues from Grecian to Roman times. And romans were inspired by Grecian culture and art but also diverged on some notes aesthetically. Another note, many purveyors of marble in older through ancient times prized marble without striations because it is more uncommon than those with.

Ry**************:

It's like saying medieval europe is dark and grim. Dude, everyone wear saturated color as clothes and paintings on their buildings.

di**********:

Augustus rocked that pajama top.

mi*************:

blasphemy! we all know color didn't exist before the invention of color photography

Ry********:

When I was a kid, I had a theory that this was the case but I doubted myself because I thought it was just another one of my wild thoughts.

Ai*********:

Hindu sculptures/statues: laughs in colour

( this vid made me realize how normal it was for me to see Hindu temples/sculptures in colour and not realizing that the Greek stones should have colour as well)

EL******:

Short version: ancients also painted statues and buildings like now.

Jo***:

WOW! I knew that the Ancient Greeks painted their statues, but I simply had no idea that the colours were this vivid, this intricate or achingly beautiful. Your video really brought back to me "the glory that was Greece," and the sense of the Greeks as a lively, witty, fascinating people. To my mind, the restored statues are colourful without being kitsch, and with no sense of the Disney treatment.

Ha****:

Now it makes sense why ancient statues never had pupils. They were painted on.

it**********:

Two years of art history classes and my teacher NEVER touched upon this? HOW.

So********:

I just played Assassins Creed Odyssey where the game set in Peloponessian War, I wonder why the statues are colored. I hv no idea developer really made the effort to make the statue accurate based on history. Wow kudos to Ubisoft

Gu************:

Wait u guys don't know that? In Italy we get taught that the old statues were coloured, they just lost the colours

Ja*********:

I’ve got to admit, the white marble looks pretty sick

ma******:

The Romans of the "iron age" republican stage, were similar to the Piedmontese, southern French and Iberian.

Ph*********:

I feel better now knowing that the ancient world was colorful.

Za***:

regardless of the statues' original appearance, I've always found the bright white marble look, way more appealing. Marble is simply beautiful in and of itself.

Gh*********:

5.4k people: "imma pretend i didn't hear that"

Ka************:

I tought this is general knowledge. Statues were supposed to be lifelike and that means color as well.

Ju***********:

OK, as a small child in San Francisco, I went to the Legion of Honor. I was probably 3 or 4 years old. My father was killed, WWII in 1945, so I have little memory of him, but I had a dream about him. I was given to an old man as an offering to a priest by my mother for whatever payment? Upon awakening, I looked at my mother and asked: "Can I go home now". My mother in this "real world" was very upset. I kept insisting I missed my real parent, i.e. the old man in my "dream" who loved me and I had to return. Guess what? The real mystery is that I saw a wall with sculptures THAT WERE PAINTED. I commented for years that the sculptures that I saw were painted... There is a Karmic justice!!!

iw********:

I'm an art student and I don't recall this being taught in class. Then again, maybe I was spacing out haha! I've always thought these statues were intentionally white but it truly fascinates me to think they were once full of vibrant colors. But I wouldn't be surprised if it were true. The Statue of Liberty in New York was made from copper, if my memory serves me right. From the original coppery color, it now has the jade color today because of how copper reacted to the environment and weathering. This video is so interesting! Thank you for making it.

De*********:

We should be grateful and thankful to you for have bought , the lively and majestic colour back to life . The roman and Greek era marble type coloured structure , buildings ,statues , monuments , structure , clay and pottery type of work from the ancient times of China , roman ,sri lanka etc , the rock stone carvings in the ancient times of Egypt , India , srilanka , Thailand , Malaysia etc , the cabok type , softer stone , which is scattered around srilanka , during the ancient times how they built stupa s , sigiria rock , their original stunning colours used around the world , under unesco , those respective countries , history , archeology department , world best artist modern and historic , world best ,carvers , marble ,rock, clay etc . A unification , cooperate , job , history related brains around the world , the modern day scanning machines etc etc would be able to preserve history's art and colours back to life .

 

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