Jul 21
i do find it really funny how widespread it's become to do 'historically accurate' or 'actual bronze age' depictions of greek mythological figures with those red stars/suns/rosettes painted on the women's cheeks and chin. because that's on one mycenaean artifact. one (1). none of the wall paintings show this kind of make-up or any painted faces anything like this, no pottery, no other statues. just this single highly unusual plaster head that may or may not even belong to a depiction of a human.
#it is EVERYWHERE#especially when people complain about the lack of 'accuracy' in media and show references for how the bronze age 'really' would've looked#and well... that face paint actually ISN'T any more accurate than a toga.#i do think its absence from myceneaean wall painting is probably telling#if real women were actually painting their faces like this in formal/ritual contexts we'd see it in the wall paintings#mine
