5 sentences with “originals”

-What if someone at the airport wanted to check our copies against their originals? -asked one.

Fortunately, the Romans appreciated Greek art so much that they often made marble copies of the Greek originals. We thus have a number of examples of what Greek sculpture looked like, albeit in the form of Roman facsimiles.

Klimt's paintings were all beautiful and skilfully executed, but also dark and disturbing (the originals were destroyed by the Nazis during their occupation of Austria - modernism was considered 'degenerate art' by the Nazi party).

Armed with his linguistic virtuosity, Erasmus undertook a vast study and re-translation of the New Testament, working from various versions of the Greek originals and correcting the Latin Vulgate which was the most widely used version at the time.

Enterprising scholars - many of them Jewish philosophers living in North Africa and Spain - translated Aristotle's work on logic from Arabic into Latin. Later, Greeks from Byzantium came to Europe with the Greek originals and also translated them into Latin.