medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Madeleine Gray wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> This ties in with our earlier discussion on painted fonts. We really don't like it. They apparently did. Traces of paint even on medieval alabaster tombs - it seems like sacrilege.. .What to do?
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Even the classical Greeks painted their sculpture. For museum purposes,
any remaining color is preserved but not enhanced. [The Philadelphia
Museum of Art has 'Greek' statues around its classicizing pediment &
they look absolutely awful, but the Philadephia sun is not the Greek sun
that so effectively bleaches out all but intense colors.] The Byzantines
painted over alabaster and ivory. Our own monochromatic taste derives
from looking at sculpture that has lost its taste.
DW
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