Ugh... Imagine if instead of pretending that ancient Greece was all white marble, artists actually depicted all the vibrant colors that we knew where there....
the earliest i know of euros depicting painted greek architecture is 1868's "Phidias Showing the Frieze", it probably wasn't as settled of a question yet, and they were less knowledgable of exterior painting---modelling that has been relatively recent iirc
going up to bat because JWW made really lived in spaces, look at that stone, its dirty, other paintings have cracks and dirt and plants all over, his paintings of honorius and cleopatra are very colored and have textiles all over... Waterhouse is really sumptuous and it's unlikely white marble is a conscious expression of classicism.
Ugh... Imagine if instead of pretending that ancient Greece was all white marble, artists actually depicted all the vibrant colors that we knew where there....
the earliest i know of euros depicting painted greek architecture is 1868's "Phidias Showing the Frieze", it probably wasn't as settled of a question yet, and they were less knowledgable of exterior painting---modelling that has been relatively recent iirc
going up to bat because JWW made really lived in spaces, look at that stone, its dirty, other paintings have cracks and dirt and plants all over, his paintings of honorius and cleopatra are very colored and have textiles all over... Waterhouse is really sumptuous and it's unlikely white marble is a conscious expression of classicism.
In this case it's accurate as Diogenes is living in either the run down part of town or an area of new construction that hasn't been painted yet.