Original greek statues were brightly painted but after thousands of years those paints have worn away.
Marble statues originally painted.
The sculpture of ancient greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient greek art as with the exception of painted ancient greek pottery almost no ancient greek painting survives.
Modern scholarship identifies three major stages in monumental sculpture in bronze and stone.
Find out how shining a light on the statues can be all that 39 s required to see them as.
The myth of the white marble started during the renaissance when we first began unearthing ancient statues.
Classical greek statues painted well known are the colorful statues and buildings of the assyrians and egyptians temples but when it comes to the greeks a surprising fact to many people is the polychrome sculpture of the classical era.
The paint has worn off leaving the aged statues with the familiar blank white appearance we ve become accustomed to.
But white marble couldn t have become the norm without some willful ignorance.
The archaic from about 650 to 480 bc classical 480 323 and hellenistic.
Most of them had lost their original paint after centuries of exposure to the elements.
Even though there was a bunch of evidence that ancient sculpture was painted artists art historians and the.