#ancient theatre

I want to write some kind of weird book just so I can use this photo as a cover. (There are images of the full statue at the link, I was just entranced by this particular shot.)

[ID: A close-up of a white marble sculpture, showing just the forearm, hand, and a comedic mask cradled in the hand, with a wig attached. The mask has a wide, leering grin and enormous eyes under heavy brows, and the overall effect is extremely cool and weird.]

This comedic mask looks scary, but the Louvre tells me it was painted salmon-pink. I can’t decide whether that makes it better or worse. 

[ID: Two images of the same comedic mask, a large leering face with a mouth set deeply into a long square beard. In the second image, the initial monochrome mask has been tinted salmon pink, or as close as I could get with five minutes in Glimpse.]