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Paint your statue<\/strong><\/p>\n

Art historians and archaeologists know that the creamy white marble statues of ancient Greece and Roman actually were painted.<\/p>\n

Now this article <\/a>in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica<\/span> shows photos based on research on microscopic paint particles. The Guardian<\/em> has the story<\/a> in English. (Thanks to Cronaca<\/a>.) Totem poles in the Pacific Northwest were originally painted too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paint your statue Art historians and archaeologists know that the creamy white marble statues of ancient Greece and Roman actually were painted. Now this article in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica shows photos based on research on microscopic paint particles. The Guardian has the story in English. (Thanks to Cronaca.) Totem poles in the Pacific […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-309","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1726,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1726","url_meta":{"origin":309,"position":0},"title":"Holy Blueberry","author":"Chas S. 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