08-22-2010, 11:38 PM
Quote:What is the general opinion on the Brinkmann reconstructions?
Ive found his depictions of Hoplites most intriguing.
I highly recommend you get a hold of the book "Bunte Götter. Die Farbigkeit antiker Skulptur," which covers the methods used for these reconstructions. They are absolutely solid, and are based on sculptures on which some traces of colour still remain, but on which most paint has faded. I've seen black and white pictures of the stele you've posted on which traces of almost all of the painted features are still visible. On the Alexander Sarcophagus, most of the paint is still visible when viewed up close, albeit badly faded, but it was almost perfectly preserved when originally excavated.
Quote:the first is just one more proof that some Greeks liked to paint their armor.
The second : I thought initially to be evidence of "leather armor" but I am more inclined to think that this might be a spollas.
We had a thread on painted armor I think.
Why would it be a spolas? Yellow or orange-yellow is commonly used to depict bronze in ancient art. It's undoubtedly painted to represent bronze.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
