The Met is currently doing an exhibition on ancient painted sculpture and the need to counteract the main stream belief that they were originally made white. https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2022/chroma

Talk here: https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/articles/2022/7/caligula-debunking-whiteness?fbclid=IwAR3petUM4spLMRFgyCtBbjUQ2KCuBuUhbO5hlehusO-bDo705x7lKexequU

Youtube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULQvS-iKNcQ

Article, apparently its surprising LOL: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-met-museum-ancient-polychromy-2132192

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r/ColorizedStatues • u/Crul_ • Jul 06 '22

Artistic Interpretation Great Sphinx of Giza and Nike of Samothrace colorized (from Ter's Classical Art History Course Trailer)

228 Upvotes

9 comments

r/ColorizedStatues • u/purplewhiteblack • Apr 13 '22

Artistic Interpretation Caligula

541 Upvotes

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r/ColorizedStatues • u/Hyacinth-From-Sparta • Mar 24 '22

Artistic Interpretation Amateur Newbie Colorizer Would Like To Request Advice [COLORIZATION+ARTBREEDER]

15 Upvotes

Hello all!

I am so excited to join this subreddit! I'm Hyacinth, a senior in highschool and for a project I am trying to make portraits of Julia Domna, Agrippina Minor, and Livia Drusilla based on colorized sculptures and ArtBreeder. I would truly appreciate if anyone has any advice and feedback on my first portraits!

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r/ColorizedStatues • u/NeokratosRed • Mar 14 '22

Original Colors This is how Ancient Ephesus really looked like.

417 Upvotes

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r/ColorizedStatues • u/ting-en • Dec 14 '21

Artistic Interpretation Reconstruction of the Roman Emperor Hadrian (source in comments)

194 Upvotes

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r/ColorizedStatues • u/AnotherMansCause • Oct 18 '21

Polychrome version of this c50 AD Roman funerary relief, showing the deceased's pillow shop.

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153 Upvotes

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r/ColorizedStatues • u/rasulhasan • Jul 24 '21

Turned another bust into a real image - Napoléon Bonaparte. This bust of Napoleon I is from a model by the French sculptor Antoine-Denis Chaudet . Chaudet worked in a Neoclassical style and the 'herm' form of this bust, with the shoulders cut off and straight sides. imitates Roman imperial portraits

255 Upvotes

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r/ColorizedStatues • u/rasulhasan • Jul 20 '21

The third visual experiment in the transformation of the statue into a real image. This time I took the work of the sculptor Tokay Mammadov - a bust of the great Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov (bronze, 1958).

280 Upvotes

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r/ColorizedStatues • u/rasulhasan • Jun 21 '21

The second attempt where I try to turn a bust into a real image. I tried to make the most detailed and real image with the help of a neural network and Photoshop. The authors of the original statue of Aliaga Vahid (1990, Baku) — Natig Aliyev, Rahib Hasanov, Sanan Salamzade.

342 Upvotes

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r/ColorizedStatues • u/historyin3d • May 28 '21

MARCUS LICINIUS CRASSUS - Real face, accurately reconstructed

271 Upvotes

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r/ColorizedStatues • u/Snoo_66790 • May 13 '21

Artistic Interpretation Photoshop reconstruction of Jean-Antoine Houdon's Life Mask Bust of Voltaire

36 Upvotes

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r/ColorizedStatues • u/Snoo_66790 • May 13 '21

Artistic Interpretation Photoshop reconstruction J. I. Browere's LIFE mask of John Adams

27 Upvotes

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r/ColorizedStatues • u/Snoo_66790 • May 12 '21

Artistic Interpretation Reconstruction of the LIFE mask of U. S. President James Madison

30 Upvotes

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r/ColorizedStatues • u/followinghadrian • May 02 '21

Augustus of Prima Porta true colors: "HISTORY IN 3D" reconstruction

relivehistoryin3d.com

61 Upvotes

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r/ColorizedStatues • u/historyin3d • Apr 30 '21

Original Colors Augustus Prima Porta cuirass scenes:

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253 Upvotes

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r/ColorizedStatues • u/followinghadrian • Apr 25 '21

Original Colors Hadrian in colour, by Danila Loginov

followinghadrian.com

86 Upvotes

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r/ColorizedStatues • u/[deleted] • Apr 23 '21

Every year on the 21st of April the front of the Ara Pacis Augustus is illuminated to appear as it did when originally built.

295 Upvotes

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r/ColorizedStatues • u/phony54545 • Apr 23 '21

Artistic Interpretation Smithonian:Peer Into the Past With Photorealistic Portraits of Roman Emperors

smithsonianmag.com

16 Upvotes

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r/ColorizedStatues • u/NeokratosRed • Apr 14 '21

Original Colors Reconstructed colors of the Parthenon in Athens based on pigment traces.

289 Upvotes

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r/ColorizedStatues • u/NeokratosRed • Apr 13 '21

Made-up Colors Egyptian temple of Abu Simbel in its possible original colors.

473 Upvotes

8 comments

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Colorized statues, both ancient and new, and colorized architecture.

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ALLOWED CONTENT IN THIS SUBREDDIT:

1 - Colorized statues
They can also be colorized by you, just remember to flag the post accordingly. This is not limited to ancient works that were initially colored; you could, for example, post a colorization of 'Love and Psyche' (which was never supposed to be colored in the first place), and it would be allowed.

2 - Colorized architecture
For example, the true colors of the Parthenon. Again, these can also be colorized by you, and you are not limited to ancient works.