05-04-2007, 11:40 AM
I hadn't seen your last post when I sent mine, but surely your latest simply illustrates my points?
1. The Kore - they admit the reconstruction is speculative- the eyes and eyebrows,- and whether the tunic is green or blue - it is well known that blue pigments turn green over time in art circles. and a statue from 500b.c. Greece is way removed both in time and culture from Imperial or Late Roman works anyway - Mediaeval painted sculpture is actually closer in time and cultural background than this !!!
2 and 3. As above and on the last,is that shading we see on the reproduction ? (which doesn't prove anything anyway since it is speculative ! - tells us too little about the original !! )
Interesting that by the time we get close to the imperial era, we do ( judging by the excerpt you supply) get highlights and shading, including the black undercoat, which technique many modern modellers would instantly recognise and refer to as "under-shading"!!
My hat is off, sir, to your impressive and diligent research !!
regards, in humility, Paullus Scipio/Paul McDonnell-Staff
1. The Kore - they admit the reconstruction is speculative- the eyes and eyebrows,- and whether the tunic is green or blue - it is well known that blue pigments turn green over time in art circles. and a statue from 500b.c. Greece is way removed both in time and culture from Imperial or Late Roman works anyway - Mediaeval painted sculpture is actually closer in time and cultural background than this !!!
2 and 3. As above and on the last,is that shading we see on the reproduction ? (which doesn't prove anything anyway since it is speculative ! - tells us too little about the original !! )
Interesting that by the time we get close to the imperial era, we do ( judging by the excerpt you supply) get highlights and shading, including the black undercoat, which technique many modern modellers would instantly recognise and refer to as "under-shading"!!
My hat is off, sir, to your impressive and diligent research !!
regards, in humility, Paullus Scipio/Paul McDonnell-Staff
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
