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What Did Ancient Rome Look Like? (Cinematic Animation) (Original Post) barbaraann Jul 2023 OP
Beautiful!! Scrivener7 Jul 2023 #1
Wow!!! Karadeniz Jul 2023 #2
Way cool! Doc Sportello Jul 2023 #3
amazing.... bahboo Jul 2023 #4
Didn't the Romans paint their statues to be colorfully lifelike? DBoon Jul 2023 #5
Yup. barbaraann Jul 2023 #6
Amazing perspectives. Thank you! Kid Berwyn Jul 2023 #7
You're welcome! barbaraann Jul 2023 #8
Enjoyable; but... snot Jul 2023 #9

DBoon

(23,179 posts)
5. Didn't the Romans paint their statues to be colorfully lifelike?
Wed Jul 12, 2023, 04:47 PM
Jul 2023

I heard they were not originally white - that happened after the thousand or so years before Europeans rediscovered Roman sculpture, during which time the paint vanished.

Kid Berwyn

(18,370 posts)
7. Amazing perspectives. Thank you!
Wed Jul 12, 2023, 04:53 PM
Jul 2023

The interconnected and detailed reality always is better than the fragments we use to build beliefs.

snot

(10,820 posts)
9. Enjoyable; but...
Wed Jul 12, 2023, 07:44 PM
Jul 2023

I think they're indulging in a bit of poetic license. The one on Rome includes a building that appears to have at least a dozen floors, & the internet says 9 floors was the tallest.

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