04-21-2007, 08:26 AM
Quote:By the way as an artist I have noticed something. They take the traces of color they have found and recreat only using that color. But the look is rather odd for the people as they have no shading etc. Probobly what they are showing is what a basecoat would look like. Then the painter would go back and paint shadows and highlights to make them look more real and for the details to stand out.
Quote:I'd quibble with the latter part. The paint may not necessarily reflect reality. For instance, why is the statue's hair brown when we know Augustus and Caligula were blond ?The above is also why why you see it as a little to dark.
Think of this level of detail painted on the statue. http://www.philipresheph.com/demodokos/iphig/iphig5.jpg
I don't think I've seen proper shading or highlighting on any examples of ancient Greek or Roman scupture, big or small, that has significant portions of paint remaining on it. Statuary and wall painting are two very different aspects of art, and one cannot necessarily be used to judge another. Plus, shading or highlighting would show up quite clearly under UV light or in other forms of examination, so I'm sure they knew what they were doing.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
