Polychromic antiquities

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Mirrored from Madam Nakamura-Branchevska.

Ever so often, usually on Facebook, people “discover” that ancient Greek and Roman sculptures were colored. Which is really funny because the trend of discovering it is at least 150 (Tanagra hoard 1870) years old. https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/whats-on/exhibitions/presentation/spectacular-art-jean-leon-gerome-1824-1904