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Show Greeks and Paint I The Greeks recognized the value of paint as a preservative and made use of something akin to It on their ships. Pliny writes of the mode ot boilini; wax and painting ships with It, after which, he continues, "neither the sea. nor the wind, nor the sun can destroy the wood thus protected." The Romans, being essentially a warlike people, never brought the decoration dec-oration of buildings to the high point it had reached with the Greeks. For all that the ruins of Pompeii show many structures whose mural decorations decora-tions are in fair shape today. The colors used were glaring; a black background back-ground was the usual one, and the combinations worked thereon were red, yellow and blue. |