# my shape is like Winged Victory of Samothrace

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-shape-is-like-winged-victory-of-samothrace/691338>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 22, 2014, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-shape-is-like-winged-victory-of-samothrace/691338 "2014-06-22T00:52:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Inna\_Minnit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Inna\_Minnit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inna_Minnit)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-shape-is-like-winged-victory-of-samothrace/691338/21 "2014-06-23T16:59:59Z")

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Why can’t it be both?

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**Author:** ![Humble\_Servant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/47e85d/32.png) [@Humble\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Humble_Servant)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-shape-is-like-winged-victory-of-samothrace/691338/22 "2014-06-25T00:49:06Z")

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> [@panache45](#):
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> I wish people wouldn’t do shit like these. They take something beautifully sublime, and turn it into trash.

The original was probably painted too–not that I’m really gonna defend the giant oscar plating thing…except, when you walk around the corner on the Chicago street, minding your own business, and you suddenly catch sight of the thing on the ground floor of a glass lobby office tower, it’s, well, startling and pretty and larger than life. Dunno, I guess I am defending it!

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**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-shape-is-like-winged-victory-of-samothrace/691338/23 "2014-06-25T03:51:51Z")

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> [@Humble\_Servant](#):
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> The original was probably painted too

That’s a good point. Our idea of ancient sculpture as pure, white and ethereal, which of course inspired the aesthetics of the Renaissance, the Baroque period and beyond, is pretty far off from how a lot of it would have looked before all the paint flaked off. Some of it was probably [pretty](http://io9.com/5616498/ultraviolet-light-reveals-how-ancient-greek-statues-really-looked) [tacky](http://harvardmagazine.com/2007/11/dazzlers-html).

How dare those ancient Greeks and Romans take their own sublime art, and turn it into trash? 😛

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**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-shape-is-like-winged-victory-of-samothrace/691338/24 "2014-06-25T12:17:45Z")

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Is this a stealth brag? Those aren’t “hugely proportioned legs” – they’re shapely and muscular. Condolences on your beautiful legs, I guess?

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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-shape-is-like-winged-victory-of-samothrace/691338/25 "2014-06-26T00:32:50Z")

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> [@smokey78](#):
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> **my shape is like Winged Victory of Samothrace**

So, How ya doin?

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