Agnieszka Radwanska: Good Catholic girl, Bad Catholic girl!

[Brian Peacock]

Interestingly, early Romanesque statuary was originally painted for extra realism.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Interestingly, early Romanesque statuary was originally painted for extra realism.

So were the insides of Norman cathedrals. The paint was scrubbed off when the country went protestant (so I heard). You can still see faint traces of the original colour on the pillars in Durham cathedral.

[Cormac]

So were Greek statues, for example, everything on the Acropolis, IIRC.

[Tyrannical]

People would freak if the all the greco-roman architecture in D.C. was painted in the original greco-roman style.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

So were Greek statues, for example, everything on the Acropolis, IIRC.

This too.

I vaguely remember seeing an article where they had used forensic techniques to deduce the original colours.

[Brian Peacock]

Ultraviolet light reveals how ancient Greek statues really looked



Original Greek statues were brightly painted, but after thousands of years, those paints have worn away. Find out how shining a light on the statues can be all that's required to see them as they were thousands of years ago.

Although it seems impossible to think that anything could be left to discover after thousands of years of wind, sun, sand, and art students, finding the long lost patterns on a piece of ancient Greek sculpture can be as easy as shining a lamp on it. A technique called ‘raking light' has been used to analyze art for a long time. A lamp is positioned carefully enough that the path of the light is almost parallel to the surface of the object. When used on paintings, this makes brushstrokes, grit, and dust obvious. On statues, the effect is more subtle. Brush-strokes are impossible to see, but because different paints wear off at different rates, the stone is raised in some places – protected from erosion by its cap of paint – and lowered in others. Elaborate patterns become visible.

Ultraviolet is also used to discern patterns. UV light makes many organic compounds fluoresce. Art dealers use UV lights to check if art has been touched up, since older paints have a lot of organic compounds and modern paints have relatively little. On ancient Greek statues, tiny fragments of pigment still left on the surface glow bright, illuminating more detailed patterns.

More here: http://io9.com/5616498/ultraviolet-ligh ... lly-looked

But wouldn't we rather be talking about naked tennis players?

[mistermack]

But wouldn't we rather be talking about naked tennis players?

That entirely depends on who it is.
Some of them, I'd rather not even think it.
Martina Hingis, yes.
Martina Navratilova, no.

:shudder:

[klr]

But wouldn't we rather be talking about naked tennis players?

That entirely depends on who it is.
Some of them, I'd rather not even think it.
Martina Hingis, yes.
Martina Navratilova, no.

:shudder:

Unfortunately, it seems you did think it.

Now, how would John Inverdale have answered the above question?

[Brian Peacock]

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I'd fuck Martina Navratilova. I just bet she does Kegels every night - she's gotta be tight as a vole!

[Brian Peacock]

You really take the biscuit sometimes?

[Xamonas Chegwé]

You really take the biscuit sometimes?

Is "taking the biscuit" some lesbian term I am unfamiliar with?

And even if it is, I'd take Martina's biscuit (always assuming that is physically possible for an heterosexualist male.)

[klr]

Well, this thread has taken a predictably strange turn, if one can say that.

[Svartalf]

You really take the biscuit sometimes?

Is this impugning 's mental health?