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[poliphilo]

From a monument to the Gybbon family in Rolvenden church, early 18th century.

Comments

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

Blank-eyed...rather like the classics! Of course the classics, both Greek and Roman, painted the eyes in and that has been lost...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I find it faintly amusing that European sculptors for hundreds of years left their statues unpainted in the mistaken belief that they were imitating the Greeks.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

It IS amusing!