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The nude female body has been depicted in art countless times. But where is all the pubic hair? (www.abc.net.au)

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[-] Bye@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Not Roman, Greek. The Greek sculptures were painted. Roman sculptors found the Greek marble beautiful without paint, and didn’t paint theirs.

[-] hihi24522@lemm.ee 24 points 3 months ago

Wikipedia disagrees: Roman Sculpture

Most statues were actually far more lifelike and often brightly colored when originally created; the raw stone surfaces found today is due to the pigment being lost over the centuries.

[-] ColdFenix@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 months ago

I think it was the renaissance sculptors that did that, not the romans.

[-] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

One of Ceasar's statue was found to have pigment residues. You can find an image of how it would've looked like when it was painted.

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