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Re:Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013) by schuyler2d on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @04:28PM (#36592128)
Maybe you should reevaluate where your own aesthetic comes from https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/04/27/whitewas...

I think the reproductions suffer a bit because the distance these statues were from a viewer varied -- but just like murals

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Re:Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013) by ffgjgf1 on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @05:18PM (#36592618)
> Maybe you should reevaluate where your own

No, I don’t think so.

The way some of these “reconstructions” look is just plain awful. And based on the surviving examples of frescoes and paintings they would look as just awful the the Romans.

> I think the reproductions suffer a bit because

They suffer because there is no shading for one thing. The skin and hair especially just look awful. It has nothing to do with the bright colors (I get that part).

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