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Chapter 1885 Group Sculptures of Laocoon

Although the ancients of our country created the method of knocking wooden wedges to get stones.

But there is no reason to believe that this method traveled to Africa and Europe "thousands of years ago".

In order to forcibly explain (Bronze Age) ancient Egyptians how to cut stone, Westerners put this Chinese method into their brains.

This is very funny, a civilization that plays with stones, how do you play with stones yourself?

You can't even explain it yourself, and you still need a real civilization that will be impossible to reach after thousands of years, and use his original invention to explain it?
What do you call archaeology?Still writing a script?

Why can't the buildings of these ancient civilizations be explained?To put it bluntly, someone used modern technology to create a relic of ancient civilization for his poor and white ancestors.

However, there was no such technology in ancient times. How do you explain it?

Ancient Egypt was in the Bronze Age, and Ancient Greece and Rome were in the Wrought Iron Age. They just played with marble and granite that were only suitable for pig iron and steel age?

They cannot explain this paradox in any way.

If you can't explain it, just talk about aliens. Modern people don't bother to play with stones, because wooden buildings are comfortable, and modern building materials are stronger and more durable.

You told the aliens not to play with nanotechnology, but to play with stones?
Modern man fakes, if he can't make a lie, he will plant it to aliens, but can you explain some logic?
Of course, these are not absolute, because it is impossible for Chen Wenzhe to simply go over and have a look at the history of these tall buildings.

However, if he has a chance in the future, he must go and have a look.

At that time, it will be clear at a glance whether it is true or not.

Of course, Chen Wenzhe is not Xihei, and he sees the advantages of Western civilization.

Even in ancient times, Western civilization was not useless, or stone carving, there are still many stone carving art works in the West.

For example, there are many excellent works of ancient Greek and Roman statues.

Of course, in the impression of modern people, when they think of ancient Greek and Roman statues, do they think of pure white marble?
Like most people, Chen Wenzhe thought so before.

But now he doesn't think so because he sees a difference.

The stone sculpture in front of me should be from the ancient Greek ruins in Tuguo.

I have to say that after seeing these statues, Chen Wenzhe was still shocked by the color of the statue in front of him.

You must know that this is still a counterfeit product. If it is the real product, how shocking would it be?
For example, the lower body statue of a naked man in front of him, such stone sculptures are absolutely unheard of in China!
Chen Wenzhe stepped forward to take a closer look, and then realized that this thing was covered with some gold leaves.

This kind of thing is completely different from a textbook.

Having said that, the plates of those textbooks were originally printed in black and white.

Passing over this relatively open male stone sculpture, Chen Wenzhe looked at other statues that clearly have a Western style.

For example, a 1st century AD marble statue, which should be "a god wearing a Dionysian headband".

Traces of red pigment can be seen on his eyes, lips and headband.

The treasure of this statue should be hidden in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

This kind of work, if you have never seen a treasure, it is impossible to reproduce it to the present level, right?

It is very strange that these statues all have colors, while the previous Western artists collectively believed that ancient stone sculptures had no colors.

But now, there are quite a few people who have discovered that the statue has color.

For example, in the early 20s, Finzenz Businkmann, who was studying for a master's degree in classics and archaeology at the University of Munich, had a similar enlightening experience.

He used a special lamp to cast a slanted light as he studied which tools left marks on ancient Greek marble statues.

The result is that while the tool from which the notches came is not apparent from the surface, the evidence of polychromatic decoration is evident—coloured throughout.

Businkman soon discovered that no special lights were needed to find such evidence.

If you take a close look at ancient Greek or Roman statues, some colors are easy to see even with the naked eye.

In this matter, Westerners have been collectively blind.

What we see is very subjective, and we need to transform our eyes into objective tools to overcome powerful stereotypes.

The tendency to equate white with beauty, taste, and classical ideas, and to regard color as alien, mundane, and exaggerated.

This is the thinking of some stone carving artists in the West for a long time.

What skin color were people in the classical period?These don't seem to be important.

However, soon a professor published two articles.

She argues that it's time to embrace the idea that those ancient statues weren't pure white — and those ancient people weren't all white.

She pointed out that two misconceptions reinforce each other.

For classical scholars, the ethnic diversity of ancient Rome, which stretched from North Africa to Scotland, is an established fact.

In another essay, she points out that, while the ancient Romans generally divided populations by culture and race rather than skin color.

But ancient texts occasionally mentioned skin color, and artists would try to convey the color of flesh.

Depictions of dark skin can be seen on ancient vases as terracotta-colored human figures.

In the near-life-size ancient Roman portraits unearthed in the Fayum region of Egypt, the portraits have a variety of skin colors.

It can be found from olive green to dark brown, attesting to the presence of a highly mixed population of Greeks, Romans and native Egyptians.

For example, the statue of "Armored Body" in the 5th century BC has already been painted and restored.

Of course, these are completely meaningless to us Chinese people, because from ancient times to the present, whether it is stone carvings or wood carvings, they all have colors, especially Buddha statues.

"Is this a group of Laocoon sculptures?" Finally, Chen Wenzhe saw even more bizarre Western stone sculptures.

The real thing is hidden in the Vatican Museum in Rome. This is a strange and exquisitely carved stone sculpture.

Those were three men, one old, two young, being bitten and entwined by two giant snakes.

It is the famous ancient Roman art treasures: Laocoon Group Sculptures.

The sculptures of Laocoon were created in the era of Tiberius in the early days of the Roman Empire.

It was recorded in the famous science and technology book "Natural History" of Rome in the 1st century AD: This work is hidden in the palace of Titus, and it is the most outstanding of all paintings and sculptures.

From Michelangelo to Baroque master Bebeni, countless artists have observed and learned from it in the past 200 years.

In the 18th century, the art historian Winklemann took it as a model of classical art ideals to expound his theory of "noble simplicity and quiet greatness".

The esthetician Lessing also wrote the book "Laocoon", comparing it to a model of aesthetic research.

Since the 19th century, the more people know about Greece and Rome, the more deeply the historical significance of the sculptures of Laocoon has become.

Now, the academic circle generally regards it as a representative work of Hellenistic sculpture.

It is determined that its specific production date is around 20 AD, and it belongs to the category of Roman art.

(End of this chapter)