{"id":373,"date":"2023-06-12T16:18:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T16:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/?p=373"},"modified":"2025-04-16T15:10:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:10:51","slug":"sources-classical-statues-werent-whitewashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/12\/sources-classical-statues-werent-whitewashed\/","title":{"rendered":"Classical statues weren&#8217;t whitewashed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Youtuber Adam Something <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sEjCNzGOe3Q\" title=\"\">made a video<\/a> attempting to address misconceptions about classical statues, and managed to make more errors than he corrected. I have a double classics major, having studied Greek and Roman history, art, architecture and oratory, as well as the Greek and Latin languages, so I feel confident explaining where Adam went wrong. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/42rn_x0XV6w\" title=\"\">This video<\/a> explains that classical statues weren&#8217;t whitewashed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"@AdamSomething is wrong about classical statues\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/42rn_x0XV6w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam Something. \u201cHow We Whitewashed The Classical Era.\u201d <em>Youtube<\/em>, 4 June 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sEjCNzGOe3Q\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sEjCNzGOe3Q<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adeline, Jules. <em>Adeline\u2019s Art Dictionary: Containing a Complete Index of All Terms Used in Art, Architecture, Heraldry, and Archaeology<\/em>. D. Appleton, 1891.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baedeker (Firm), Karl. <em>Greece: Handbook for Travellers<\/em>. K. Baedeker, 1894.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bell, John. \u201cColor on Statues, Color Round Statues, and Paintings and Sculpture Arranged Together.\u201d <em>Journal of the Society of Arts<\/em> 9.440 (1861): 420\u201327.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bond, Sarah. \u201cWhitewashing Ancient Statues: Whiteness, Racism And Color In The Ancient World.\u201d <em>Forbes<\/em>, n.d. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/drsarahbond\/2017\/04\/27\/whitewashing-ancient-statues-whiteness-racism-and-color-in-the-ancient-world\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/drsarahbond\/2017\/04\/27\/whitewashing-ancient-statues-whiteness-racism-and-color-in-the-ancient-world\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brinkmann, Vinzenz. \u201cLooking Back on 40 Years of Research.\u201d <em>Liebieghaus<\/em>, n.d. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liebieghaus.de\/en\/insights\/looking-back-40-years-research\">https:\/\/www.liebieghaus.de\/en\/insights\/looking-back-40-years-research<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cameron, Alan. \u201cThe Life, Work and Death of Hypatia.\u201d Pages 65\u201382 in <em>Le Voyage Des L\u00e9gendes\u202f: Hommages \u00e0 Pierre Chuvin<\/em>. Edited by Delphine Lauritzen and Michel Tardieu. CNRS Alpha. Paris: CNRS \u00c9ditions, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4000\/books.editionscnrs.23870\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4000\/books.editionscnrs.23870<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.openedition.org\/editionscnrs\/23870\">http:\/\/books.openedition.org\/editionscnrs\/23870<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Combs, Meghan. \u201cThe Polychromy of Greek and Roman Art; An Investigation of Museum Practices.\u201d Master of Arts, City University of New York, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finn, D J. \u201cThe Greeks and Painted Sculpture.\u201d <em>Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review of Letters, Philosophy,&nbsp; &amp; Science<\/em> 2.6 (1913).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gardner, Helen, Horst De la Croix, and Richard G. Tansey. <em>Gardner\u2019s Art through the Ages<\/em>. Harcourt, Brace &amp; World, 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gautier, Th\u00e9ophile. \u201cDU BEAU DANS L\u2019ART. R\u00c9FLEXIONS ET MENUS PROPOS D\u2019UN PEINTRE GENEVOIS, ouvrage posthume de M. Topffer.\u201d <em>Revue des Deux Mondes (1829-1971), NOUVELLE S\u00c9RIE<\/em> 19.5 (1847): 887\u2013908.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. <em>Theory of Colours<\/em>. Translated by Donald Eastlake. London: John Murray, 1840.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hodne, Lasse. \u201cOlympian Jupiter. Winckelmann and Quatrem\u00e8re de Quincy on Ancient Polychromy.\u201d <em>CLARA<\/em> 5 (2020). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5617\/clara.v5i0.7978\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5617\/clara.v5i0.7978<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.uio.no\/CLARA\/article\/view\/7978\">https:\/\/journals.uio.no\/CLARA\/article\/view\/7978<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014. \u201cWinckelmann\u2019s Depreciation of Colour in Light of the Querelle Du Coloris and Recent Critique.\u201d <em>Konsthistorisk Tidskrift\/Journal of Art History<\/em> 89.3 (2020): 191\u2013210. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/00233609.2020.1788636\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/00233609.2020.1788636<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Irwin, David G., and John Flaxman. <em>John Flaxman 1755-1826: Sculptor, Illustrator, Designer<\/em>. Studio Vista, 1979.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jebb, R. C. <em>The Ajax of Sophocles<\/em>. Cambridge: Macmillan &amp; Bowes, 1882.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jenner, William A. \u201cReview: The Message of Greek Art.\u201d <em>The Classical Weekly<\/em> 8.4 (1914): 26\u201329. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/4386956\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/4386956<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kleiner, Fred S. <em>Gardner\u2019s Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective: Volume II<\/em>. Cengage Learning, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laver, James. <em>Victoriana<\/em>. Pyne Press, 1975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lechat, Henri. \u201cNote sur la polychromie des statues grecques.\u201d <em>rea<\/em> 10.2 (1908): 161\u201368. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3406\/rea.1908.1537\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3406\/rea.1908.1537<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mach, Edvund Von. <em>Greek Sculpture &#8211; Its Spirit And Principles<\/em>. Boston, USA: Ginn &amp; Company Publishers, 1903.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Magazine, Smithsonian, and Meilan Solly. \u201cSee the Vibrant, Long-Overlooked Colors of Classical Sculptures.\u201d <em>Smithsonian Magazine<\/em>, 28 June 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/see-the-vibrant-long-overlooked-colors-of-classical-sculptures-180980321\/\">https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/see-the-vibrant-long-overlooked-colors-of-classical-sculptures-180980321\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martin, Arselia Bessie. <em>Application of Color to Antique Grecian Architecture<\/em>. Illinois, USA: University of Illinois, 1910.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Menen, Aubrey. <em>Rome for Ourselves<\/em>. McGraw-Hill, 1960.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pollitt, Jerome Jordan. <em>Art and Experience in Classical Greece<\/em>. Cambridge University Press, 1972.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pyhrr, Stuart W., Filippo Negroli, and Jos\u00e9-A. Godoy. <em>Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries<\/em>. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Richardson, Rufus Byam. <em>A History of Greek Sculpture<\/em>. American book company, 1911.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Richter, Gisela M. A. \u201cPolychromy in Greek Sculpture with Special Reference to the Archaic Attic Gravestones in the Metropolitan Museum.\u201d <em>American Journal of Archaeology<\/em> 48.4 (1944): 321\u201333. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/499897\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/499897<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014. \u201cPolychromy in Greek Sculpture with Special Reference to the Archaic Attic Gravestones in the Metropolitan Museum.\u201d <em>Ancient Art: Pre-Greek and Greek Art<\/em>. Edited by James S. Ackerman. Vol. 1 of <em>Garland Library of the History of Art<\/em>. New York: Garland Publishing, 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014. \u201cThe Hermes of Praxiteles.\u201d <em>American Journal of Archaeology<\/em> 35.3 (1931): 277\u201390.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seltman, Charles Theodore. <em>Approach to Greek Art<\/em>. London &amp; New York: Studio Publications, 1948.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talbot, Margaret. \u201cThe Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture.\u201d <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, 22 October 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/10\/29\/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture\">https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/10\/29\/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Westmacott, Richard. \u201cOn Colouring Statues.\u201d <em>Archaeological Journal<\/em> 12.1 (1855): 22\u201346. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/00665983.1855.10850967\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/00665983.1855.10850967<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Westropp, Hodder Michael. <em>Handbook of Archaeology: Egyptian-Greek-Etruscan-Roman<\/em>. George Bell, 1878.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winckelmann, Johann Joachim. <em>The History of Ancient Art<\/em>. Translated by Giles Henry Lodge. Vol. 2. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1849.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGardner\u2019s Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Volume I\u201d (2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLA POLYCHROMIE DANS LA SCULPTURE ANTIQUE.\u201d <em>Revue Arch\u00e9ologique, Troisi\u00e8me S\u00e9rie<\/em> 26 (1895): 347\u201358.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The English Cyclopaedia<\/em>. Bradbury, Evans, 1867.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youtuber Adam Something made a video attempting to address misconceptions about classical statues, and managed to make more errors than he corrected. 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