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Roman Imperial sculpture, the Augustus of Primaporta: today (left), with possible spear (next), bronze original from c. 20 BC (next), and painted marble copy from c. 14-29 AD (last). 🇮🇹
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Qin dynasty, terracotta warrior, guardian figure: today (1), clay figure before firing (2), lacquer added (3), painted (4). 🇨🇳
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Greek Hellenistic sculpture: today (left) and possible original color (right). Laocoön and His Sons. 🇬🇷🇮🇹
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Greek Hellenistic victory monument from Pergamon (left); detail of Greek bronze original The Dying Gaul by Epigonos (?) (2nd image); Roman marble copy with possible coloring (3rd image); The Dying Gaul today (right). 🇬🇷🇫🇷🇮🇹
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Stages of the Spear Bearer (Doryphoros): Polykleitos’ Greek, Classical, bronze original (lost); bronze with inlaid eyes, color, and copper overlays; Roman marble copy with supports and color; present day. 🇬🇷🇮🇹
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Greek Classical sculpture: today (left) and possible original coloring (right). Kritios Boy. 🇬🇷
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Greek Archaic sculpture: today (left) and possible original coloring (right). New York Kouros. 🇬🇷
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If you had seen this statue in ancient Rome, you might not have recognized it because it wasn’t white: his cloak was a vivid red, parts of his armor were picked out in blue, and the whole figure was painted to look as alive as possible...
It’s the Augustus of Prima Porta, a 2000 years old portrait of Rome’s first emperor, found on 20 April 1863 in the ruins of the country villa of his wife Livia, just outside Rome, where she spent her last years after his death in AD 14.
He’s dressed as a general, his cloak wrapped around his hips and his right arm raised as if he were about to speak to his troops, yet his feet are bare, which in Roman art was normally a privilege of gods and heroes.
When it was dug up, the first scholars to study it could still see faint traces of paint, and in 2002 restorers at the Vatican Museums began a careful cleaning that brought many more back to light. Analysing those traces with X-rays, they found bright red on Augustus’s tunic and cloak, and blue on the fringe of his armor and on the trousers of the Parthian on his breastplate, enough for the museum to create a full painted replica of how he may once have looked.
The breastplate carries the story he most wanted people to remember: at its centre, a Parthian king hands a Roman officer the military standards that Rome had lost in 53 BC at Carrhae, one of the most humiliating defeats in its history, and which Augustus managed to recover in 20 BC through negotiation rather than war. Above them the sky god spreads his cloak across the heavens, and below lies the goddess of the Earth, as if the whole universe had turned out to witness the moment...
Greek Archaic sculpture: today (left) and proposed color reconstruction (right). Kroisos, Kouros from Anavysos. 🇬🇷
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Egyptian Old Kingdom relief sculpture: today (left) and proposed color reconstruction (right). 🤴🏽👸🏽🇪🇬
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Assyrian relief sculpture: today (left) and proposed color reconstruction (right). Lamassu from Palace of Sargon II, Dur-Sharrukin (Khorsabad), Iraq. 🐂🦁🦅🧔🏻♂️🇮🇶
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“You boys picked the wrong dance floor…”
Bond, James Bond?
Here is the reality, we may love it or may not love it.
I lived through the rise of “remixes” and rap music. It was a cultural shock. Rightly so artists were not happy and in some ways creativity became less, creative as source material became less and less and derivatives become more and more.
You may or may not have formed an opinion on the music subject. And now AI has rendered the music issue infinitely worse.
Now it is movie’s turn. And it will be many times harder to adjust and form an opinion.
Why? Because ANYONE will be able to remix entire movies on demand.
Read that again.
Entire classic movies recast and remixed into infinity.
By 2029 this will become more common. In the open source community we have 7 tools in progress that will do this before large platforms for many reason. It is much closer than most think.
I get it, let our all “THIS IS SLOP” and “STOP THIS, BLOCKED” this is the reality ahead and we will be fully fatigued of any novelty. And if you read my stuff, you know this desensitivity is tragic and you will have to guard your wonderment. We will explore how together but anger ain’t gonna fix it.
So I love you folks and I hope to be the help in you adjusting to this change. Don’t shoot the messenger. I don’t say I agree, it just is and I want you to be the first to adjust, plan and maybe prosper by what is ahead.
To say it clearly:
Remixed Movies On-Demand, full length with Trailers for review are just up ahead.
You heard it here first and you will now hear everyone sound like me soon. My ego says “ain’t that always the case?”.
Don’t get mad, let’s see the wave and ride it. It’s dawn patrol and we are at Swammy’s first.
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The French Detective on scene for the recent jewellery heist at The Louvre in Paris is the most detective looking detective I have ever detected.
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In 1911, the Mona Lisa vanished.
But this bizarre crime didn’t just rock the art world…It made the Mona Lisa the most famous painting on Earth.
Here’s the wild story: 🧵
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Doing some public humanities (telling strangers where to stand when looking at Holbein’s Ambassadors).
