Why did Roman sculptures started looking bizarre in the 4th century?

paint faded

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>>2464822
What?

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>>2464834
you mean you didn´t know?

>>2464822
>>2464854

Read the OP again mate

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>>2464854
>posting a shit reconstruction

Also, not all of them were painted. That's a meme. There's a Roman fresco that shows a statue of Mars just marble white. I'll see if I can find it.

>>2464854
Reminder we can only see the base coats that were put on the statues, any paint applied over them to give more detail and texture would have been lost to time and we won't be able to see them.

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>>2464886
Here.

because they're actually original by then

>>2464812
because of christfags

>>2464909

Looks like a depiction of a pale white guy rather than marble, his loan is clearly painted.

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>>2465166
No. He's dark as fuck in the frescoes that actually represent him as a person. That's clearly just marble.

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>>2465185

>>2464812
A lot of these sculptures and busts were made specifically to be at a certain height, such as on a pedestal or along the top of a wall. This means altering some of the proportions so that the profile looked better from the ground view. Obscured sections were left undetailed and unfinished.

>>2464909
That's just faded lad. You can see that the cloak was originally bright red .

>>2464812
>>2464834
Why were their eyes so weird? Looks almost like an anime character.

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>>2465185
>>2465195
Men have ALWAYS been painted darker than women, just by the fact that men go out into the sun.

Because naturalism becomes boring after a couple of centuries, especially when life is all about the end of days coming any moment now.

>>2466498
Because of this >>2465237

It's the same reason why Michelangelo's David has giant Yaoi hands

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>>2464812
That statue of Constantine specifically is fucking gigantic. Colossi generally have different proportions from regular statues