Word: cuirass
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...placed side by side, of “Torso of a Warrior” where the statue from the Athenian Acropolis first appears to be nude and carved out of white stone. However, in the second and third replica of the sculpture, color reveals a lower edge of a cuirass and patterns of interlocking leaves, indicating that the figure is in fact dressed for battle. Although color surrounds us, injecting color in the world of ancient Greek art is startling and unexpected, and this shock to our traditional conceptions is what “Gods in Color” captures...