After reading the article, True Colors, please consider the following questions in your response:
- If you were asked to describe a classical statue prior to reading this article – what might come to mind? What
formal qualities would you have emphasized? - The article stresses the current archaeological and art historical position that our modern understanding of
classical statuary must be re-evaluated – and that our traditional appreciation of certain formal qualities of
classical art is – at least in part – a culturally conditioned response. In what way is this so? Why might we prefer
to understand classical statuary in a particular way? - What evidence do we have – both textual/anecdotal and physical/scientific that classical statuary was not
only colored but that the color was an essential component of its realism?
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