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As is the modern invention of ancient white marble statues: https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/videos/2022/7/spotlig...

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I don't think this is true for genuine, dug up from the ground, ancient greek and roman statues. Replicas are a different story.

You can clearly see leftover pigments, grains of dirt, and various other undertones when you look closely at any museum with these statues. They clearly are nowhere near a pure white colour, without any exception that I've seen.

Purity can play an outsized part for some identities and moral worldviews. The truth is messier than myth.

But that's the point, anyone who bothered to pay close attention wouldn't have believed in the purity myth in the first place.

Of course those folks who don't care enough to pay attention might believe in such a myth, but why try to convince folks that don't care?

nb 'modern' here meaning 15th century

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