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Thaoes t1_j475vec wrote

Actually preserving these things and not embellishing then to make them look pretty/more expensive/etc. Is a relatively new thing

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mangalore-x_x t1_j4hje1n wrote

also the reason to polish all that dirty paint off those marble statues and also medieval armor.

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tatramatra t1_j4urkdy wrote

Correct. In the past people saw old documents in a very practical way and not as some artifacts of historical value. Same attitude applied to other things like architecture, tools, weapons and so on. It was natural for them to take an old thing and "improve" it as they saw fit.

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