But white marble couldn t have become the norm without some willful ignorance.
Marble statues originally painted.
The archaic from about 650 to 480 bc classical 480 323 and hellenistic.
To give a tangible feeling of the originals the husband and wife brinkmann team have recreated some of these aged statues and painted them in the colors they would have borne in their glory days.
Even though there was a bunch of evidence that ancient sculpture was painted artists art historians and the.
Polychrome is the art of painting with colors whether it is two dimensional pictures walls or three dimensional sculpture architectural elements.
The paint has worn off leaving the aged statues with the familiar blank white appearance we ve become accustomed to.
Original greek statues were brightly painted but after thousands of years those paints have worn away.
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.
The myth of the white marble started during the renaissance when we first began unearthing ancient statues.
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.