Antique statues were colourful !

[Alrik]

Hello,

I put it in here ...

Today I read about an exhitibion of reconstructed colourful antique statues !

Some pictures can be seen here: www.liebieghaus.de/lh/index.php?StoryID=51

This is very interesting, imho, because it shows that in ancient times, statues were very colourful, in stark contrast to common belief !

I had heard of this earlier, but never seen actual reconstructions. This is most impressive to me !

Alrik

[Elliot Kane]

It's always encouraging to realise that our ancestors had the same appalling lack of taste as we do ourselves, yes! ;D

[The Sonar Chicken]

Cool. It also reminds me of those Rome temples which upon analysis, were found to be extremely colourful!

[Hildor]

Actually it isn't more than normal that people use colour for their arts I think.