Comments on: Color Sculpture Recreations

By: aware

aware — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:13:45 +0000

just cuz we're used to the stone monochrome ones doesn't mean the originals weren't colorful. tho i dunno if the colors were that bright using ancient pigments. maybe.

a better question: why does this woman have the head of a cabbage patch kid popping out of her clothes?

By: Mar85

Mar85 — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:18:43 +0000

I dunno... I like them better without paint

By: ted

ted — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 01:12:34 +0000

You could say "colour replicas" instead of "coloured replicas" or "colourized". The Athena in Nashville is quite the thing.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:50:21 +0000

Oops.. and by "life-sized replica" what I really mean is full-scale replica.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:48:45 +0000

In Nashville, TN, there is a life-sized replica of the Parthenon in Athens, built as a nod to Nashville's old nickname as "The Athens of the South." It stands in Centennial Park here in Nashville. Inside our Parthenon is a life-sized replica of the statue of Athena that stood in the original Parthenon. In 2002, the statue was guilded and painted. No top ten list of "colorized" replicas would be complete without her. At least, this biased Nashvillian thinks so! See for yourself...

http://www.nashville.gov/Parthenon/Athena.htm

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:26:23 +0000

Sculpting them out of beautiful marble only to have them covered up with paint? Or is it because marble is an easy material to work with?

By: billy

billy — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:23:57 +0000

i would love to see the coloured version of athens !