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[Crispvs]

Henk,

I did not mean to imply that all Roman statues were copies of Greek originals. That idea would be ludicrous. I merely tried to point out that a number of surviving Roman statues appear to be copies of lost Greek bronze statues which were well known in the ancient world and which we have detailed descriptions of. Sorry if my statement was unclear.

I don't know whether the whole of your post was directed at me or not, but if it was, I should like to point out that at no point did I try to imply that a reconstruction based artistic evidence is automatically wrong. My purpose was to provide some evidence to support what Christian had said about the probability of the existence of pattern books.

Crispvs