Why are noses missing from so many egyptian statues.
Marble statues color.
The well to do wore inexpensive colors and the extremely wealthy wore royal colors.
At the time he was a graduate student at new york.
It is because of this lack of knowledge that renaissance sculptors intent on copying greek and roman forms carved their statues in unpainted white marble.
Mark abbe was ambushed by color in 2000 while working on an archeological dig in the ancient greek city of aphrodisias in present day turkey.
The dress of the cambridge copy is painted.
Not so to the greeks who thought of their gods in living color and portrayed them that way too.
The original now white peplos kore a statue of a young girl wearing a long dress belted at the waist stands in the acropolis museum in athens.
As far as they knew unpainted white marble was precisely the way their ancient forebearers had sculpted.
The myth of the white marble started during the renaissance when we first began unearthing ancient statues.
To us classical antiquity means white marble.