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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 4 months ago by Cheradenine to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 4 months 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 43 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Weird, the same thing happened to me

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Your merkin weathered away over time, too?

[–] Cheradenine 12 points 4 months ago

It did, but people dig that now, so evvs

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months 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.