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GCSE Classics · key term
An established artistic way of depicting something, such as using particular skin colours for male and female figures.
Used by OCR
Paper 3
Revise: FrescoesColour also followed conventions. Men were commonly represented with red skin and women with white skin; lions could be painted yellow. These choices helped viewers recognise different figures.
Distinguish artistic conventions from literal reality: white female skin and red male skin are standard ways of representing figures.
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