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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2016-03-22 09:37 am

Putto



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

[identity profile] pondhopper.livejournal.com 2016-03-22 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Blank-eyed...rather like the classics! Of course the classics, both Greek and Roman, painted the eyes in and that has been lost...

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2016-03-22 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] pondhopper.livejournal.com 2016-03-22 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
It IS amusing!