The nude female body has been depicted in art countless times. But where is all the pubic hair?
The nude female body has been depicted in art countless times. But where is all the pubic hair?
From the influence of the devil to overzealous restorers, there are numerous strange reasons and theories behind the conspicuous lack of pubic hair on women depicted in Western art.
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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
Weird, the same thing happened to me
Your merkin weathered away over time, too?
It did, but people dig that now, so evvs
Not Roman, Greek. The Greek sculptures were painted. Roman sculptors found the Greek marble beautiful without paint, and didn’t paint theirs.
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.
I think it was the renaissance sculptors that did that, not the romans.
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.