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@EddieMillerStudios

4 жыл бұрын

Ted Turner?

@eshaanbidarakoppa5738

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Vox. I was inspired, and after watching a few yt vids, I am now colorizing as a hobby. This was the video that started it all

@bg18888

4 жыл бұрын

where to find those small sculptures

@kingjeremysircornwell7847

4 жыл бұрын

vox lies, f ck you.

@nathancamara6285

4 жыл бұрын

Vox this isn't a lie. It's a historical misinterpretation. You even said it yourselves but you treated this like a lie.

Once in art school our teacher was sick, so a substitute came in, and she went on like a 20 minute RANT about how the sculptures were not white, but colored. She was rlly passionate about that.

@zack7122

4 жыл бұрын

nice

@zack7122

4 жыл бұрын

i support her

@levynguyen572

4 жыл бұрын

I like her

@Kronkrito

4 жыл бұрын

I mean she's not wrong...

@gerardofierros4165

4 жыл бұрын

Black lives ma... Oh wait not that type of color

Now it makes sense why ancient statues never had pupils. They were painted on.

@xano2921

4 жыл бұрын

Not every time

@muscledavis5434

4 жыл бұрын

Some of them had pupils

@HollySaidIt

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, painted or used stones

@ollie4022

4 жыл бұрын

Brett C they would cut the pupil out as a sort of hole, it looks kinda weird up close, but far away it looks normal(ish)

@HollySaidIt

4 жыл бұрын

Brett C there would be holes for stones

"The whiter the body is, the more beautiful it is" *wait a minute*

@snoopy5477

3 жыл бұрын

true

@tsnovak20

3 жыл бұрын

It is, it looks better

@tsnovak20

3 жыл бұрын

Aki ra marble white statues looks better than bronze or golden

@tsnovak20

3 жыл бұрын

Aki ra are you?

@j3d89

3 жыл бұрын

@Aki ra nope... White marble looks better

Ancient World: Full of bright and dazzling colors Now: B L A C K - W H I T E - G R A Y

@hippieduck

3 жыл бұрын

It's a world where nuance is dead.

@ft.jackjimmy7282

3 жыл бұрын

M O D E R N~~

@subhradipporel285

3 жыл бұрын

time fades it away

@bilelngando4398

3 жыл бұрын

Hopefully 2021 is not 200 bc. Taste and art evolve

@timfrogt555

2 жыл бұрын

art and tastes evolve, I mean these days you'd much rather have a clear white and black interior than an interior full of yellow and reds

Wait u guys don't know that? In Italy we get taught that the old statues were coloured, they just lost the colours

@rani.andretti

3 жыл бұрын

So do we in Portugal

@u3u36

3 жыл бұрын

Americans... I learnt that too, in Brazil.

@ZetHololo

3 жыл бұрын

Russian, never heard of it until now

@KiraDaBeastNY

3 жыл бұрын

A lot of people don't know this surprisingly.

@laertyman3185

3 жыл бұрын

@@u3u36 o amdre young (youtuber brasileiro) fez um video disso, e nos comentarios ninguém sabia.

Colorization of statues should be an augmented reality app for every museum.

@The_Jovian

4 жыл бұрын

Ooh love that idea

@e-cuauhtemoc

4 жыл бұрын

I second that!

@satoshieswc9205

4 жыл бұрын

I started in AR (I am more use of VR dev) and I think this is a good time to start an AR project like that

@mr.g7613

4 жыл бұрын

You shouldve kept this to yourself..

@alejandromedina4597

4 жыл бұрын

Thats a very good idea.

Next you're going to tell me that the ancient Greeks and Romans didn't speak English with received pronunciation accents.

@AshrafAnam

3 жыл бұрын

NOOOOOO...what?

@victoriap1561

3 жыл бұрын

Roman history makes more sense when you think of them as Italian.

@kindnessfirst9670

3 жыл бұрын

@Menelaus, The Red Haired King The concept of "black" and "white" had not been invented yet. That started in the 16th century.

@bobworks5197

3 жыл бұрын

@@kindnessfirst9670 Tamahu was the word. By definition states a difference

@cozywalrus7175

3 жыл бұрын

Wait... they didn't?!??!?

i want a little augustus statue with a painting set so i can paint it, museums should sell them

@mirandagoldstine8548

3 жыл бұрын

Me too. I actually used to color photos of ancient sculpture on Photoshop. I really need to get back to that.

@RichardHernandez-pz7bt

3 жыл бұрын

@@mirandagoldstine8548 link us to some of your work :) would love to see it

@mirandagoldstine8548

3 жыл бұрын

@@RichardHernandez-pz7bt Sadly I have never gotten around to posting my photos online. I’m afraid of scammers but thanks for saying you would love to see some of my works. If I ever figure out how to post videos on KZread again I might start coloring the photos again and posting videos of my work.

@aydnmesuttorun8397

3 жыл бұрын

3D printer

@mikey20is

2 жыл бұрын

rose their you go, time to start that business going. Great idea.

It’s like learning that the dinosaurs had feathers

@bradleymchugh6952

4 жыл бұрын

@idon'tevenknowanymore Everyone single archaeologist is a liar!

@varungambhir3403

4 жыл бұрын

Bradley McHugh *paleontologist

@PadreMortalis

4 жыл бұрын

@idon'tevenknowanymore oof! Imagine omniscient invisible ghosts

@juliocesari4407

4 жыл бұрын

@idon'tevenknowanymore ok boomer

@avrizadevano3502

4 жыл бұрын

@idon'tevenknowanymore So like those ancient fossils and bones are...? Dragons? Is it so hard to believe that many years ago animals looked different than nowadays?

I guess it’s not only Roman statues, but also the Great Sphinx of Giza and the Terracotta Army were painted with colours too.

@jianzuo8183

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly! Scientists have found out the Terracotta Army of China was painted in color when they were buried! Search it.

@zozidedodo780

4 жыл бұрын

@@lowenzahn3976 actually the you can see traces of the white lime stone on the top the pyramid in the middle khafra a portion of the lime stone was even entact until as near as the 1800's

@esobelisk3110

4 жыл бұрын

löwenzahn some of them had golden tips!

@rokkfel4999

4 жыл бұрын

And the pyramids said to shine white before the lye coroded

@leonsutram

4 жыл бұрын

@@lowenzahn3976 You can see this and the Sphinx in Assassins Creed Origins

Italian: didn't you taught about it in school? Rest of the world: 👁👄👁

@wait...6531

3 жыл бұрын

no, i know that and im from Brazil

@anaeyoi4490

3 жыл бұрын

i’m from the us and i already knew that

@noorsheikh1930

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't :/

@datdamndog389

3 жыл бұрын

@@anaeyoi4490 but did you learn it in school?

@anaeyoi4490

3 жыл бұрын

@@datdamndog389 yea i learned it in school

The museums usually fail to emphasize this enough, the truth is that at least they could put a picture of a reconstructed colored statue next to the statue's description, something they don't normally do.

Augustus rocked that pajama top.

@eggsalmon6035

4 жыл бұрын

I know right

@AnaMaria-pt2mv

4 жыл бұрын

😆😆😆

@theishaanandankitashow

4 жыл бұрын

Omg YESSSS

@deovisco

4 жыл бұрын

Augustus is a cool guy

@Danosaur101

4 жыл бұрын

The same cannot be said for THE ZUCK

Imagine Disneyland faded completely colorless and pale in the future.

@janetmiller2160

4 жыл бұрын

!!!!

@stevethepocket

4 жыл бұрын

And then imagine people of the future assuming that's how they were made, and the cycle starts all over again.

@alexrivers8163

4 жыл бұрын

Ckme on we all know disney will own everything in the future. The United States of Disney. The Disney Federation, The Peoples Republic of Disney. North and South Disney

@NguyenTran-nv6qq

4 жыл бұрын

@@stevethepocket that's literally my art exhibition

@RaimonTarou

4 жыл бұрын

and the mickey mouse statue will be the statue of david in the future.😲

Keep in mind, that when you paint on a white surface your colors seem brighter! When I paint on my tiny 25mm metal figures for my D & D game, I often paint the entire piece in gunmetal black and then drybrush colors over the black areas - this leaves a natural dark background in the folds of clothing and highlights raised areas of the figurines. If I want colors to be very bright, I paint white on top of the raised areas and then add color.

This is literally taught at school in Italy, how you united States citizens talk about this as if it was a secret? 👁👄👁 Edit: I was referring to the smatterer tone the video use, none tried to hide this information just read from a good book. I don't care if you know it ad you are from Genovia or Israel. My point wasn't to bring down someone but to underline the fact that things like this are in middle school books. No need for sensationalism.

@Scriptadiaboly

3 жыл бұрын

Murican culture as is :(

@pukkolo21

3 жыл бұрын

Lol you are right xD like oddio un segreto segretissimo gomblotto

@fabioventura2984

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe bc American history is more focused on American history and not Italian?

@Scriptadiaboly

3 жыл бұрын

@@fabioventura2984 Ancient Greek and Roman history are universally interesting. Also, how many years of history has usa 😂

@fabioventura2984

3 жыл бұрын

Scriptadiaboly My point was that of course an Italian is going to know more about Italian history than an American. Each country teaches a little global history but then focuses more on its own history. Also there’s a lot to US history, even if we’re a young country.

But did Romans have arms?

@egnogg1244

4 жыл бұрын

no they were actually snake people

@fapa237

4 жыл бұрын

well this Vox study is gonna show you how you have been in fact lied all this time and they actually had arms :OO i know i was shocked, oh yeah also wh*te arms.

@Infernus_Dante

4 жыл бұрын

Nah arms weren't invented yet

@jasmim9194

4 жыл бұрын

nah, they used their legs to hold things

@Faction

4 жыл бұрын

"Arms grow back" *no they dont*

“Blame it on Michelangelo” Hey leave that ninja turtle alone.

@fajaradi1223

4 жыл бұрын

So who eat our pizza?

@marydominguez6033

4 жыл бұрын

@@fajaradi1223 some bady touche mAh pizzah!

@Hannah-uv8hy

3 жыл бұрын

This made me laugh way too much

@doravalverde6844

3 жыл бұрын

FRISHR ok

@harinh2

3 жыл бұрын

This is a rat race, but I ain't no rat

Why is it that whenever the statue of Augustus is painted, his breastplate is white, shouldn't it be gilt bronze?

@mikethewise2000

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, I've heard It was either pure or plated gold. Obviously not worn in battle probably ceremony.

@TimThomason

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikethewise2000 Even if he wore it "in b a battle", Augustus (Octavius) was a patrician general in ancient Rome. He led the battles from behind, remaining in camp or off the field to coordinate and strategize. He never had need for armor outside the ceremonial sense.

@tl8211

2 жыл бұрын

And even if he did enter battle, wearing heavily decorated armor has been the norm for high officers since the dawn of civilization. Just because something looks pretty doesn’t mean it was cerimonial: fancy armor was their BMW, their Rolex.

5.4k people: "imma pretend i didn't hear that"

@duvan-solis

3 жыл бұрын

Ha, You have 54 likes, and said 5.4k.

I just played Assassins Creed Odyssey where the game set in Peloponessian War, I wonder why the statues are colored. I hv no idea developer really made the effort to make the statue accurate based on history. Wow kudos to Ubisoft

@vladdietheladdie7345

4 жыл бұрын

At least they did one of the easiest thing possible

@clowntrooper61

4 жыл бұрын

Really? No way? I gotta play that game to see it

@codboss7092

4 жыл бұрын

Very nice, they got 1 thing right out of the other 200 things that is competely historically innacurate

@flora1316

3 жыл бұрын

Ubisoft did AMAZING with their recreation of Alexandria, so well that one of my classics professors in college used it as a resource and example of superb reconstruction and polychromy (recoloring).

@sanny8716

3 жыл бұрын

And yet every time you criticize Valhalla for being inaccurate you get the "AC was always fiction not based in reality!" defenders

They teach the fact about colored statues in art schools. Problem is that even though the fact is spoken, it is hardly ever shown. They tell you statues used to be colored and then proceed to show you milions of white statues and thus the historic accuracy remains clouded. I like white marble staues, but art history cannot be about what you like, but about what is true.

@JohnnoNonno

4 жыл бұрын

It's not shown because there are no more traces of it, all the paint on the originals got away and the copies are in unpainted marble

@-miaumiau

4 жыл бұрын

Nonno Yes but what we’re saying is that it should be made more clear that they were originally painted

@awos6559

4 жыл бұрын

Michal Ocilka nope. But I learned it from a paper I found while doing research. There’s a professor somewhere I forget the school who’s studied this. Vox I think got this from her studies or paper I believe. I’ll add a link to her work if I find it

@choibtc6121

4 жыл бұрын

@@awos6559 right in the description of the video

@jianzuo8183

4 жыл бұрын

"Art history cannot be about what you like, but about what is true."

They kinda look cooler and more mysterious when they’re in their colorless marble form in my opinion lol.

@prada4bratz

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah right

@Doozy95

3 жыл бұрын

@@prada4bratz how one comma can change everything.

@Lonech

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but knowing what they once looked like makes me realize how much character in these statues was lost to time.

@Delinae

3 жыл бұрын

It's also much easier to see and appreciate the sculpture's structure without the colors. This is why black and white photography is still around.

@oo685

3 жыл бұрын

I think so too, it looks more like history in all white.

more accurate title: things you didn’t know because you didn’t care, but now that you know you think it’s surprising

@girlsquad224

3 жыл бұрын

Spot on! lol

I always asked that question; why are movies of ancient Rome, Egypt etc always shot with the depiction of the ruins today? I'd love to see a movie showing how lively the places actually were because they weren't living in museums.

@NaNa-wy2tk

4 жыл бұрын

hopefully in the future movies set in ancient times depict the places with colors

@ilmisteriosofranceseradene7548

4 жыл бұрын

"Rome" by HBO is one of the most faithful representations of republican Rome I've ever seen.

@hugovieiradasilva6657

4 жыл бұрын

Watch "Rome", an HBO-BBC production. It's amazing in that regard.

@Ants1884

4 жыл бұрын

Also the movie Alexander has the statues in color

@polyommata

4 жыл бұрын

HBO rome is good as others have said, but its kind of freaky that they exclusively cast white british people. The new assassins creed odyssey, is honestly amazing for its representation of the ancient world. Some college professors have even started using screen shots of the in game Parthenon in lectures because it is painted and all that stuff. And the ruins in the game were already ruins in 5th century bce which is wild to think about.

If you ever find yourself in Oxford, there’s a room in the Ashmolean Museum that has painted replicas of classical statues. So interesting to see and well worth a visit!

@BvousBrainSystems

4 жыл бұрын

Also available in the Orsay museum in Paris. They were made by Jean-Leon Gerome, a neoclassical artist who insisted on historical accuracy in sculpture but never managed to make painted statues a thing.

@Beaverthing

4 жыл бұрын

Glyptoteket in Copenhagen has some on display as well (including some of the ones shown in the video).

@DirtyPoul

4 жыл бұрын

@@Beaverthing What!? I've wanted to go, but now I have to!

@AlfredBarron

4 жыл бұрын

Wow! I’ll have to look next time I’m there - luckily only an hours drive for me!

@hannaht8005

4 жыл бұрын

@Gracchus Babeuf what's that??

The lost art of sculpture painting has fascinated me since I discovered that it was a lost art while working as a security officer at the Getty museum.

As a Warhammer 40k miniature painter, I can say that her job on Caesar at the end is tournament ready lol

I’ve got to admit, the white marble looks pretty sick

@sirmcnugget7748

3 жыл бұрын

Ur cancelled bro

@actioncookiez3564

3 жыл бұрын

sir MCnugget i know you’re being satire but its shocking how there’s actually people who think like this

@alessandro.calzavara

3 жыл бұрын

U saying Canova statue are not awesome?

@sirmcnugget7748

3 жыл бұрын

@@alessandro.calzavara ok so when someone says he likes something that automatically means that he cant like something else. Makes sense

@alessandro.calzavara

3 жыл бұрын

@@sirmcnugget7748 I didnt mean that, I probably misunderstood the meaning of the word "sick" since English is not my first language

"really? in the past people didn't use color for marble statue?" "Shhh, don't make me do extra work" Probably some renaissance artist

@skylerthompson8652

3 жыл бұрын

We learn they cut corners for the sake of budgeting

@jjk4891

3 жыл бұрын

Lol I feel that tho

@pm6796

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah And they scrubbed the melanin off some of those statues too!!

@redan3237

3 жыл бұрын

@@pm6796 are you suggesting that ancient rome was black?

@daxdarve8817

3 жыл бұрын

@@pm6796 🤣🤣🤣🤣 here we go they where all black. Can you proof it ?

4:06 that looks like a....

I love how you talked about cloth color and ignored most of the controversy hinged on which was skin color

@spankg888

2 жыл бұрын

Unlike vice

@notjosephstalin6391

2 жыл бұрын

Controversy? What?

@salmineo4132

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah give them.a few years when they can admit they werent white

@spankg888

2 жыл бұрын

@@salmineo4132 yeah they were clearly africans lol

@dewd9327

2 жыл бұрын

@@salmineo4132 the romans were what we would consider white. But back then no one really categorized people based on skin color so the Romans thought of themselves as roman and not *white*.

Look at the terracotta warriors in China, the fact two thirds of them are still buried because we still don't know how to properly preserve this paint and stop it from fading with exposure to UV.

@FangirlRandomscrew

4 жыл бұрын

iona we also don’t know if lead was used and other toxic chemicals, and they are trying to figure out if it’s safe for us to even open the actual tomb!!

@Corsuwey

4 жыл бұрын

​@@FangirlRandomscrew... Not entirely. Sure there's a lack of technology. But, from what I've heard, there's also the Chinese government mandating that the tomb should never be opened.

@adriansmith7730

4 жыл бұрын

@@Corsuwey Well... the dude filled his tomb with lakes and rivers of lead, so maybe it's better to keep it closed for now. At least we know where the tomb is, it looked like a mountain before the excavations began.

@CS-zn6pp

4 жыл бұрын

This is true. They are coloured (faded) when the soil is first remove and they turn earth brown over the next 48 hours...

@SwadianKnight101

4 жыл бұрын

ADRIAN SMITH wasn’t it filled with mercury and not lead?

Similarly, ancient buildings used to be riddled with jewels, colorful stones, and other adornments. Look at the ancient Temples of Southeast Asia like Bayon on Angkor Wat and you will find holes where jewels once resided before being robbed at later times.

@thomascatty379

4 жыл бұрын

JdK 52 is your profile picture Marcus Agrippa ?

@jdk5281

4 жыл бұрын

@@thomascatty379 Indeed it is.

@thomascatty379

4 жыл бұрын

JdK 52 you have good taste

@jdk5281

4 жыл бұрын

@@thomascatty379 Thanks.

@argenisraul8111

4 жыл бұрын

The spanish talked about how colorfull the cities of the natives where. Would lo e to hace seen one.

Ok, I'm honestly really happy the white marble became a thing. It looks way better than with color. But it is cool to know the history.

@jonathanrocha5274

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe you believe it looks better because we've been exposed to that for decades.

@jonathanrocha5274

3 жыл бұрын

@bird balling That's my point: preference is created by exposure and training.

@user-xx2kf8bn7w

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking about that. If they had such an amazing technique for sculpting, shoudn't they be extremely good at painting them as well? I'm not a scientist so I don't know how accurate these colorful reconstructions can be, but they seem to be more of a crude version of painting, following only the base colours of each area without applying any texture or balancing any shade. Since they could master the marble so well, I wondered if they couldn't have the same hability to paint the sculptures like a hiperrealistic sculpture, which would be super cool to see.

The white statues are nice but it’s really cool to see the intended original color. It’s disappointing some people wanted to ignore it because they didn’t like it. It’s not about your preferences. It’s about what’s correct.

The famous terracotta army in China is the same. Once colorful, the paint all broke off and left the statues solid brown.

@hmmmhmmm6917

4 жыл бұрын

Paint came off because explosion to oxygen

@PACKERMAN2077

4 жыл бұрын

@@hmmmhmmm6917 explosion?

@LeechUFC

4 жыл бұрын

PAKTRA PRODUCTIONS *exposure

@sinoroman

4 жыл бұрын

can someone recolor the terracottas? thanks

One of my ancient history professors said that the Greeks were so outlandishly colourful in their statues and frescos that they were considered brash and gauche by the ancient Egyptians, who saw them in much the same light as today's aristocracy views the "nouveaux riches." Enjoyed the video, thanks.

@MAKEDANOS

3 жыл бұрын

Was that before or after they were conquered by them?

@baileybrinker5935

3 жыл бұрын

To be considered gauche by the ancient Egyptians is quite the feat

@teslaxx1

3 жыл бұрын

The Greeks are the most brilliant people in history, they conquered Rome culturally.

@ArlettyAbady

3 жыл бұрын

@@teslaxx1 I have to agree in an artistic sense, since they broke the art canon, which the Egyptians never did - except for Akhenathon, and Plato is timeless wisdom. But that's quite a statement, which I would not dare say, bc as a people, the Chinese also produced intellectual, medicinal, and artistic wonders roughly around the same time. When Hesiod talked about the ages of man, I think the Greeks were in the Bronze Age and we are in the doldrums, where stupidity reigns.

@lnb29

3 жыл бұрын

watching the video I can't help but think they had a point

Honestly, thank you for this video! When i studied art history i remember my teacher telling us that the old statues had color, and i always wondered why people never talk abou that. I honestly think the color on the statues make them even more beautiful (: i can imagine a beautiful and colorful society when i see them colored

I hate it when people destroy history, especially to obfuscate. It makes me appreciate all the more those people who work to preserve it and especially restore it. ❤

Studying Latin taught me this. Additionally, sometime statues had eye holes where their irises should be. That was because originally they would have precious or semi precious stones in them like lapis lazuli for blue. Over the years thieves would steal such stones. And much pigment was artfully used to create life like visages as described in ancient texts. There were distinct differentiations of embellishment on these statues from Grecian to Roman times. And romans were inspired by Grecian culture and art but also diverged on some notes aesthetically. Another note, many purveyors of marble in older through ancient times prized marble without striations because it is more uncommon than those with.

@helloworld5219

3 жыл бұрын

There are still some statues with irises.

@arisardar6018

3 жыл бұрын

When I visited Pakistan I saw ancient Buddha statues with holes in their forehead. I asked what happen. I was told that they used to have gems there, but now those gems are in England.

@OddysChannel

3 жыл бұрын

@@arisardar6018 Britain has a lot of stolen ancient artifacts in their museums. There are documentaries about this.

@traktortarik8224

3 жыл бұрын

Shiloh Henry grex latinus!

@alejandrorangel6080

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! I've noticed the holes and always wondered why they made the bowl like

4:10 "But when there aren't any visible colors, they have another tool" Me: "Time machine" "UV light" Me: "Yeah, that."

@katief6323

3 жыл бұрын

This part played RIGHT after I read this

@jeffreyogodogun285

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

I love that you actually got a paint brush out and got to work. A genuinely curious mind.

So you’re telling me sculptures fade after thousands of years? *wow*

@Ilogunde

3 жыл бұрын

But remember, it's the renaissance artists fault for not seeing the pigments that where long gone...

This is not unique to Ancient European sculpters though. Indian statues of primarily Buddha and Mahavir were once believed to be colorless and people, to defend this hypothesis, said that adding colour might have been too 'worldly' for these statues but today, after painstaking works by archaeologists, scientists and Historians, we do know that they had an array of colour on them

@maxx1014

4 жыл бұрын

It's not surprising because statues of Buddha were probably first created by Graeco-Indian settlers influenced by their own Greek idols

@maestroicarodecarvalho3947

4 жыл бұрын

The aztec and mayan architecture and art was also very colorful, and with chemical discoveries, we are also discovering what colors there was

@Pantsinabucket

4 жыл бұрын

TheNeoYouth not wholly true. Standing Buddha statues are definite signs of Indo-Greek/Bactrian influence, as Greek gods are usually portrayed as standing. However, there are hundreds of examples of older statues of the Buddha, usually showing the point where he achieves nirvana (sitting with one hand touching the ground and one facing palm outward).

@sarthaksharma5772

4 жыл бұрын

@@maxx1014 that's true but Here is the thing, they only started the Gandhara tradition in North West. There was also the Mathura Tradition in North India. Even though it is still largely considered the starting of the tradition in the subcontinent, it was largely left untouched and Greek elements slowly started to fade. I am talking about statues well into 7th century CE when Greek elements were almost invisible. British Historians made the mistake of over emphasizing the Greek elements and hence their studies are not considered perfect today by experts in India and abroad

@sarthaksharma5772

4 жыл бұрын

@@Pantsinabucket Not expected someone called Nutlord to know about this stuff

Imagine living in that beautifully colored world

@EximiusDux

4 жыл бұрын

A world full of death, diseases, cruel dictators, slavery, and worse. But at least it might have been colored.

@Lazurath101

4 жыл бұрын

templar k Yeah but that’s just a TV. If you go out into public most of the colours you’ll see are just grey and brown. It stinks and the world seems poorer for it.

@Elephantstonica

4 жыл бұрын

TriCore 9 Same as today then.

@bodyofhope

4 жыл бұрын

@@Lazurath101 And much more dangerous then also.

@amber3244

4 жыл бұрын

@Paul Allen’s card what?

Interesting information, thank-you. Sunlight fades just about everything in time. Michaelangelo did not consider himself a painter, but loved the natural beauty of marble stone.

Loved it...had no idea...congrats from Portugal

blasphemy! we all know color didn't exist before the invention of color photography

@booploops22

4 жыл бұрын

This guy knows too much. He must be silenced.

@maskedkoopakid1405

4 жыл бұрын

I can smell a r/wooosh coming up

@BeaverChainsaw

4 жыл бұрын

Not true! There was white... black.... grey.... what else was there?

@discountasian

4 жыл бұрын

@@BeaverChainsaw darker grey lol

@axnyslie

4 жыл бұрын

19th century wild west was only sepia tone. A very brown and tan era especially for those who frequented saloons, brothels, and jails.

Same with all of the Pyramids in Egypt. All are documented to be once covered in white marble with giant copper caps or crystal tops. It's super neato. Would be cool to see a film that shows the real depictions of the times.

@mr.l8527

4 жыл бұрын

Thing is, most movies based on, "history", take place when the pyramids were already ancient. Take note that monuments such as the Great Pyramid of Giza were ancient when the Roman empire came to be... Yeah, they're really old.

@tombrown407

4 жыл бұрын

Not Marble, white limestone plastering, and the the caps where typically gilded black granite.

@CherryLipstick6x3

4 жыл бұрын

That depiction can be seen in Assassin's Creed Origins. You can even climb them 😁

@George_D777

4 жыл бұрын

IIRC, the big 3 were once capped in gold with exquisite marble or limestone facades underneath, adorned near the bottom also. They were still intact & revered during the Ptolemaic Dynasty, & subsequent Roman period until xtianity was imposed via decree. While their true defacement occurred between the time of the Mamelukes & Ottomans, fair to say: monotheistic extremism ultimately put an end to antiquity's artistic legacy. The pyramids, mighty as they still stand, are but one of antiquity's countless world treasures deliberately defaced, destroyed, and/or otherwise taken from view of the world. What remains intact/visible today is but a shadow of what once was.

@kaimargonar1000

4 жыл бұрын

You mean Gods of Egypt was fictional?

wow. their statues must've been really satisfying then, as portraits to preserve the image of their important figures and whatnot.

This has been an amazing revelation for me, thank you for creating the video ❤️

Didn’t know this was a secret. The signs at the museums alway say that the statutes used to be colorful.

@Onlylettuce92

4 жыл бұрын

I know right! Smh 🤦‍♀️

@guardrailbiter

4 жыл бұрын

You mean the descriptions that most museum visitors don't read?

@juanmaruli4977

4 жыл бұрын

Well I've never went to any European museum before, so...

@mankrikswifey

4 жыл бұрын

Lisa Dixon Idk maybe people who live in Europe..... considering they’re free

@gamd666

4 жыл бұрын

@@juanmaruli4977 you dont need tho... almost every affluent city or western city have museums that have traded. been donated, or purchased ancient world sculptures and the likes

"The BLAME lies with Michelango" is a poor choice of words. He didn't know. They didn't have the knowledge to know exactly what was going on. They tried to understand history like we do now. We just have more knowledge

@hdauven8434

4 жыл бұрын

@Jarek Kril You're making a broad generalization here. Who is "They"? Which ancient documents did they read? Do you have evidence that these scholars definitely knew? Is there correspondence available of scholars discussing this topic from the era you're referring to? Just because, as mentioned in the video, one guy ignored the "definite" proof that statues used to be colored, does not mean the whole educated class was familiar with this information.

@WorldOfJockeys

4 жыл бұрын

i’d say you can still blame him, if he were among the first to sculpt without intent of using color. that doesn’t mean he did it on purpose. it’s just that he started the trend. i don’t see why that’s such a bad thing

@DNCC0305

4 жыл бұрын

I think you are looking to much into it. No one is actually blaming he. We are not pointing fingers at his tomb and saying: "It's your fault Michael! That it is not common knowledge that Greek sculptures where colored!" I think it is more of a playful way to say it. He did popularized that idea. Still, we don't look to Michaelangelo for his historic knowledge as we don't read Shakespeare's Julius Caesar to understand roman history.

@blank1507

4 жыл бұрын

It’s just a script don’t be so sensitive

@chico305SIGMA

4 жыл бұрын

Liberals love blaming other people for their stupidity and mistakes you could only blame yourself for not educating yourself.

Such an articulate and informative video. These types of videos make YT appealing to me. Thank you

Completely changed how I saw those time periods. The patterns are really amazing

And some of the Pyramids of Giza had golden caps and a white limestone finish. It’s no wonder that over thousands of years these monuments would look so different from their original forms.

@camij6124

4 жыл бұрын

actually the pyramids finish was removed to use the materials elsewhere (i dont remember for what exactly but ik the materials were eventually removed) !

@bruh-lg6ch

4 жыл бұрын

Dell12 16 similar to mesoamerican pyramids - today we see them as grey, but they used to be covered in elaborate colors

@Dell-ol6hb

4 жыл бұрын

Camryn Mangual oh yeah I know , but still I was saying that it’s no surprise that ancient monuments from so long ago are so different from their original forms things happen and change as time marches on and civilizations rise and fall.

@saltypyrotato

4 жыл бұрын

@@camij6124 a lot of people stole the gold caps, and the limestone was used by conquerors to built monuments and temples. EDIT: since some people are replying with other uses, I should clarify that they stripped the limestone to build a variety of structures.

@ferdonandebull

4 жыл бұрын

Salty Pyro Tato well some... but some was used for paving...

Assassin's Creed covered this notion pretty well by portraying many ancients Greeks with many colors and dyes

@andrefilipe9042

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly. But the Greek people in that game don't seem to actually represent how the Greeks looked like.

@jasonblalock4429

4 жыл бұрын

The funny thing, though, is that they went both ways. They got the colors right for Odyssey, but the statues in Origins were almost all white. I wonder if they got called out on it for Origins and decided to go fully authentic for Odyssey.

@scottlemoult3109

4 жыл бұрын

The statues in Odyssey also look a lot more realistic, and not tacky like the tones and pigments used in videos like this... Seems like they're just trying to make it a meme when really the statues would have been absolutely gorgeous when painted. Not basic primary colors like they lazily show here...

@therafmaster5958

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, they did it VERY well

@regulusvii

4 жыл бұрын

@@scottlemoult3109 I think its because in Odyssey, not only were the colors more realistic in that they were darker and more common dyes, but that they were also worn down. People seem to forget that the Greeks were ancient to themselves, they were around for quite some time so their own creatures were destroyed and rebuilt countless times.

Makes a lot of sense. They gave many sculptures so much detail that painting them was just a way to make them look even more real.

I prefer them without colour. It makes me more appreciate their skills

Bruh don’t they know color wasn’t even invented until like 1930

@kawaiicat3256

3 жыл бұрын

Like zoinks

@kristingallo2158

3 жыл бұрын

It existed. Dyes and paints have been found on caves. Roman's had functioning sewers and concrete, im sure they had paint.

@juliacao1839

3 жыл бұрын

You know one of the first pigments were discovered by Greeks right?

@pewneko

3 жыл бұрын

replies above me

@nightowlspirit24

3 жыл бұрын

bruh people in the replies can’t take a joke- edit: spelling

I love the idea of an ancient Roman being shown around our classical buildings and saying, "Nice! When do the decorators get here?"

@alalalala57

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha. "Why do you have a bunch of unfinished stuff lying around?"

@jw4277

3 жыл бұрын

It's my doppelganger!

@arno-luyendijk4798

Жыл бұрын

If that particular Roman would read Winckelmann's quote on the 'purity' of white statues, he would probably exclaim: " Errare humanum est....sed iste in extremis !!"

Most romans were black trans women

@JaikoDiaz117

11 ай бұрын

Indeed.

@ankundamwebembezi6358

6 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

It's not a lie, this fact was even mentioned in Plato's books 🙄 Don't blame people for your own illiteracy

*_imagine if the statues are actually victims of medusa_*

@_Minecraft_ASMR

3 жыл бұрын

The Gogons turned people to stone, not Marble.

@noblechief4023

3 жыл бұрын

No because romans wouldnt have thought medusa was real.

@donavancaton2042

3 жыл бұрын

Hyperion marble is stone isn’t it?

The same happens with aztec and mayan statues and buildings, a lot of them were painted and you can hardly see mentions of it. But to be fair all of the reconstructions in textbooks do carry the color of the aztec cities.

@princesslegarreta913

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, and on the taínos too. Ignaris, subgainos etc. All colores but time make them white and without life.😥

5:08 Bro literally became a CEO of Facebook

Is it just me or does the white Augustus look waaay better than the painted one?

@JoRdi-ul4xg

4 ай бұрын

Just you

@AleksiJuvakka

Ай бұрын

It would've looked a lot better than what is shown here

Churches were also painted and very colorful.

@TheAlps36

4 жыл бұрын

Certain ones still are - the Florence cathedral for example

@ea635

4 жыл бұрын

Adrian Pietkiewicz that’s from a different time though. But yeah, it’s not surprising that Christian churches kept the tradition after Roman times.

@TheAlps36

4 жыл бұрын

@@ea635 Oh sorry, I didn't realise you meant ancient churches

@someguy9571

4 жыл бұрын

Orthodox churches in particular are still very colorful and adorned with icons.

@Wasserkaktus

4 жыл бұрын

@@someguy9571 He is talking about churches in Antiquity: Orthodox churches were a development from the Middle Ages.

Mayan and Aztec statues and pyramids were painted colours also. The mayan civilisation had collapsed and its temples and cities overgrown with forest 500 years before the Spanish arrived. (Further. The temples were covered in plaster, so smooth. They were painted red).

@marvinsilverman4394

3 жыл бұрын

nobody care

@George_D777

3 жыл бұрын

@@marvinsilverman4394 you may not care, ok, no problem. But plenty of people do, in fact, care... Ironically, it's likely there are far more who care more about the the truth of the Mayan civilization than whatever it is _you_ care most about.

@rorschachozymandias2821

3 жыл бұрын

@@George_D777 right on, I love the mayan and aztek cultures, the mexica people and their rich history is amazing, I wish we could see what they could've become if these lands hadnt been colonized and pillaged

@claudiamarianidamato9499

3 жыл бұрын

Love the Mayans and Aztecs. My family and I are from Italy and we’ve been to Mexico 7 times. I have soo much ancient aztec and Mayan art in my room from when we went. I remember italy had won the World Cup and everyone in the streets would scream “FORZA ITALIA!!” Such awesome people

@nick-vv1lz

3 жыл бұрын

Is there a source to this I tried finding something but I couldn't

Yes! I remember reading about this in a book once, to this day it still freaks my brain out! Thanks for the video!

spoiler: pretty much every thing everywhere all the time was colorful. Not just Romans and Greece. The whole antiquity and especially medieval periods which people often depicts as dark and all bare stone were actually quite the opposite. Castles and Cathedrals were covered in pigments and tapestry.

Two years of art history classes and my teacher NEVER touched upon this? HOW.

@HayTatsuko

3 жыл бұрын

I know, right? I had a really good professor for all my classes, too -- and she never mentioned that those statues and other sculptures were painted. I will have to link this video to her when I can find her email again. She's a Docent at the Nashville Parthenon full-scale replica (which I've visited -- it's gorgeous)... might add an extra cool thing for her to discuss with visitors!

@rogerdodger8813

3 жыл бұрын

Because he doesn't use KZread! LOL. But it was well documented in news articles when the first coloured reconstructions came out!

@fablewalls

3 жыл бұрын

"How?" - because very few people are allowed to teach art history through "lectures" anymore. Lectures are supposed to be bad teaching practice and you're supposed to teach yourself with the teacher prompting and questioning you. It's the premier reason why so many modern British art students think "art" started in the 1990's with Japanese Manga artists or with stuff on Instagram.

@hiephoi8632

3 жыл бұрын

fablewalls I had art history classes in high school, which pretty much are seminars. Have had other art history lectures at uni and indeed lectures tend to make you remember less.

@fablewalls

3 жыл бұрын

@@hiephoi8632 - makes it difficult then doesn't it! Lectures and "art history class" is sleep inducing but if you don't do them you end up with art students who basically know nothing and don't care about what happened before they got their first Instagram account. Somewhere, there is a happy medium - but I often think the only people interested in art history are not artists.

Fun fact: Lacoon is not a Roman statue, it's the masterpiece of a Greek artist from the Dodecanese islands and was stolen by the Romans when they conquered Greece and never returned.

@helgaioannidis9365

4 жыл бұрын

@W.A M.P As the Romans claimed to be descendents of Greeks it would have been pretty weird to destroy their culture. Actually the Romans took over a big part of the Greek culture, including cuisine, philosophy, education, political systems, medicine and religion.

@guywithaballsack6966

4 жыл бұрын

W.A M.P well the romans thought they were descendants of the Greeks so

Gosh how GORGEOUS would it be to see all of these statues in their true color ?! If only

@elainad6728

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr it would look amazing!!

This is like the first time you see a black and white photo after being digitally colored

In hind sight, it makes sense, having colours. Colour signify that they can afford pigments. The richer you are, the more grandiose your colours should be! And look at the clothes of existing tribes across all nations, many of them boasts colours!

@katethegoat7507

3 жыл бұрын

Oddly enough it also makes sense if you consider stuff like garden dwarves, or nativity set statues. They're all colored because they have no reason not to be. Same for statues on streets.

@deidraws2530

3 жыл бұрын

@@katethegoat7507 yeah, everday figurines and statues are mostly coloured. :)

@katethegoat7507

3 жыл бұрын

@@deidraws2530 exactly! Now imagine if that was the case with everyday architecture and decorations

@Marixchatt

3 жыл бұрын

@leonardimas1 what???

@glennquickmire5738

3 жыл бұрын

@leonardimas1 The Klu Klux Klan wasn't even around until after the civil war...

Also a lot of Roman statues are copies of originally bronze greek statues

@brazilianman92

4 жыл бұрын

Some but not that many. Romans had their own rulers as gods. So many of their rulers were sculpted.

@ozvulcan

4 жыл бұрын

@@brazilianman92 You are wrong. The main Roman pantheon were just the Greeks gods with different names, Zeus->Jupiter, Athena->Minerva etc. Of course the statues of Roman leaders were original, but when it came to the majority of statue work you would have found in Rome, they were copies of Greek originals.

@brazilianman92

4 жыл бұрын

@@ozvulcan The imperial cult took precedent over the Greek inspired Roman gods. The leaders of Rome were always idolized. This even prior to their shift into the empire. Hence why we have statues of Marcus aurelius. When they shifted into an empire the imperial cult became huge. So emperors and the royal families were seen as Gods. Which made them the most popular choice to sculpt. Hence why so many emperors have statues. Also the cult of mithraism and various non greek cults took hold as well. The Greek gods themselves are just Phoenician and Egyptian gods by a different name. Such as Baal Hammon being Cronus/ Saturn/ Geb.

@brazilianman92

4 жыл бұрын

@@ozvulcan Gotta read more bud. Tisk tisk

@brazilianman92

4 жыл бұрын

@bishes be mad The imperial cult is a real thing bro. This is something commonly done by the Egyptians, Chinese and Roman empire. It even carried on a bit past into the Byzantine empire. Where Constantine was almost given divine like status. Just look up imperial cult and you'll find scholarly studies done on it. The concept of a Godly royal line is something the Roman empire definitely did. It started with the advent of Augustus Caeser.

If you want the best idea of how classical Roman statues looked just go to a catholic church. The Roman way of making statues survived in Catholicism, and how catholic statues are fully painted is exactly how Roman statues would've been painted.

Wow, that was really interesting! Thanks!

It's like saying medieval europe is dark and grim. Dude, everyone wear saturated color as clothes and paintings on their buildings.

@imkabochan

4 жыл бұрын

I guess it's because movies always want to portray medieval times literally as the dark age, going with feeling more than accuracy.

@suzanne31

4 жыл бұрын

medeival europe was dark and grim because of a certain virus wiping out millions

@januspanperspective1253

4 жыл бұрын

Ryo Bryan Lienardy I imagine that the gamut of color available in those days was rather limited to everyday people and their possessions.

@toxicdermyillunary4103

4 жыл бұрын

@@januspanperspective1253 hmm, frankly, you are correct but from what I know until today, their colors is mostly saturated than not. So it is limited but more limited in the darker color than the bright saturated one and obviously lacking in their ability to reach many of RGB color neither be able to make gradations. Furthermore, putting aditional charcoal (Black) doesn't give good dark color generally, so, since medieval people are people like us and considering their culture consider the brighter the color the more beautiful, pristine, and of course richer it is, I believe they won't darken their lapis lazuli (Blue and all color in general) and prefer the saturated color. Correct me if I'm wrong tho.

@toxicdermyillunary4103

4 жыл бұрын

@Sambhav Mathur I think Asian goes through medieval era rougher. Not studying Asian history that much but from what I know Chinese has weird politic where you get together and break then back together then break. Japan be like, is there any land out of Japan? Oh well, that clan is an ashole let's think about it later. Or maybe Asia is more prosperous when global trading happen? Not sure but you may be right since Asia is the source of stuff like spice where Europe mostly just the consumer.

Interesting fact: the terra cotta warrior statues were originally very colorful as well.

@wiozak8459

3 жыл бұрын

the orange lie!

@George_D777

3 жыл бұрын

They're actually among the most astounding finds ever made. Each one is different, not just by face. And yes, while I'm not an expert, I do know they were painted with a variety of colors.

@panhow

Жыл бұрын

There was a photo I saw which shows the statue with colors before the it immediately fade away upon exposure to oxygen.

The insides of most castles are grey plain stone. In Dover Castle there is a little patch of coloured plaster that has survived, showing that the interiors of castles were actually plastered and coloured.

I love the reconstructed and repainted models! Also all the frescos from Pompeii. I was able to visit it once and honestly, it feels so much more _alive_ than any other ruins I've seen from the time. Considering how colourful even very old churches in the entire Balkan area tend to be, it makes perfect sense that the Ancient Greeks would have valued such designs more than people more accustomed to modern minimalist West European architecture and decor, if that makes any sense

Never contemplated the fact that they were painted. from ignorance and general lack of discussion on the subject. Would be great to go to Rome and see it in colour.must have been quite spectular.maybe gaudy but still spectacular.

I learned that Ancient Greek and Roman statues were painted all over in middle school, if not earlier. Same thing is true for the temples. That’s why columns seem to have all those tiny indentures, because they were covered with coloured shells or beads.

@bellamylawx9479

4 жыл бұрын

I didn't know it till I saw this video

@MrGoatflakes

4 жыл бұрын

Nice

@Cherry-qx6rk

4 жыл бұрын

i mean here in greece they teach you that in 3rd grade history class

@displaychicken

4 жыл бұрын

Me too. I don’t know how people could not know that honestly

Wow! Great video, thank you!

Yup, same with Egyptian statues.

WOW! I knew that the Ancient Greeks painted their statues, but I simply had no idea that the colours were this vivid, this intricate or achingly beautiful. Your video really brought back to me "the glory that was Greece," and the sense of the Greeks as a lively, witty, fascinating people. To my mind, the restored statues are colourful without being kitsch, and with no sense of the Disney treatment.

@mirandagoldstine8548

2 жыл бұрын

Agree. The colors make them seem life like. Also for some statues the Roman would use different colored marbles for parts of a statue instead of painting the entire statue.

@cartergomez5390

2 жыл бұрын

I was amazed at the vivid colors as well. Why did we have black and white television when everybody had color in real life?

Who else thought that when she put the tiny statue on the table that the ‘white lie’ would be that all the famous greek and roman statues were small

@raventrunite6459

4 жыл бұрын

TheWolfboy180 aww

Yes! I was in the Vatican and they stressed how the paint faded off of the statues over centuries.

5:14 Michael Scott’s inspiration for writing the character Goldface for “Threat level midnight”😂

5:08 don't tell me that that's not Mark Zuckerberg

@Hellbunnyfelicia

3 жыл бұрын

U right u right

@first1_out

3 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment

@ludice1373

3 жыл бұрын

Marcos Svcvrvus

@bridgetkane2856

3 жыл бұрын

Wait. It’s not?!

@alex36265503

3 жыл бұрын

Its a joke. She says "seem human" then shows zuckerberg..

So you’re telling me that assassins creed was more accurate than my history class?

@wolandv.2355

4 жыл бұрын

Yep. That's TOOOOOOTALLY it. Let's Ignore the fact that this video is about statues, not historical events and data's. And yes, if you're history class teacher *said* that they were white, then *Yes*, Assassin's creed more accurate about statues than you're class.

@wolandv.2355

4 жыл бұрын

@little boy blue I guess I should Woosh myself. Voland.V. r/woosh.

@Vinc90

4 жыл бұрын

I think there's some truth to that. even though AC takes a lot of liberties (duh, it's fantasy) they bring in, I think, a lot of experts to build a realistic world

@terreausore2435

4 жыл бұрын

@@wolandv.2355 3 o's in wooosh.

@fartsneed9464

4 жыл бұрын

NO

Make Rome colourful again !

Marie Cascione, your presentation was DELIGHTFUL ♥♥♥♥♥♥

I feel better now knowing that the ancient world was colorful.

@Tiger_Simple

3 жыл бұрын

Same, the recreations look so dazzling!

Warhammer hobbyists know all about colouring sculptures :)

@majorfallacy5926

4 жыл бұрын

they couldn't bear watching this video

@zarlus8

4 жыл бұрын

@@majorfallacy5926 I did, and I reminded them of the amount of coats one should use when painting... sculptures.

@tsmspace

4 жыл бұрын

you know, I think it would be a really cool thing to produce full size miniatures for top painters to compete on painting. It is possible that such hobbyists could be expected to do the very best recreations of historical statues, compared to any other artist.

@ADeeSHUPA

4 жыл бұрын

Michalis Famelis hmm

@elizabetheve940

4 жыл бұрын

THIN THY PAINTS

But in the Art Nouveau period of the 1880s~WW One, some color painting of some statues, e.g., busts, was revived.