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The Smell of Gods: Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were Once Not Only Painted But Also Perfumed
F or centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood as timeless symbols of classical beauty. But these sculptures, now frozen in monochrome, looked dramatically ...
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A crumbling, long-forgotten statue with an unusual erect phallus might be a Michelangelo. Renaissance scholars want hard evidence.
In a place of honor was a life-size marble statue ... "And this Pan looks to me rather to be what it purports to be." The statue does not, at first glance, look like a lot of Michelangelo's ...
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Statues in ancient Greece, Rome were colorful — and perfumed
The myth that the statues of ancient Greece ... more than 100 sculpture replicas painted in bright hues based on ideas of what the originals might have looked like; modern technologies were ...