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The nude female body has been depicted in art countless times. But where is all the pubic hair? (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 1 month ago by Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works to c/andfinally@feddit.uk

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[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 65 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You know how Roman statues were actually painted bright colors? In ancient times pubes were actually glued onto the groins of sculpted figures, unfortunately with weathering over time most of these sculptures lost their pubes

[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Weird, the same thing happened to me

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Your merkin weathered away over time, too?

[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

It did, but people dig that now, so evvs

[–] Bye@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Not Roman, Greek. The Greek sculptures were painted. Roman sculptors found the Greek marble beautiful without paint, and didn’t paint theirs.

[–] hihi24522@lemm.ee 24 points 1 month ago

Wikipedia disagrees: Roman Sculpture

Most statues were actually far more lifelike and often brightly colored when originally created; the raw stone surfaces found today is due to the pigment being lost over the centuries.

[–] ColdFenix@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 month ago

I think it was the renaissance sculptors that did that, not the romans.

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

One of Ceasar's statue was found to have pigment residues. You can find an image of how it would've looked like when it was painted.