This is not how people admired these works of art when they were made. Ancient statues were not only painted in bright colors ...

A few years ago, museum visitors in New York City finally got the opportunity to see how the statues would actually have appeared when they were created: painted in vibrant colors. Now, a researcher ...

In recent decades, classical scholarship has shown that contrary to the gleaming white aspect they bear today, Greco-Roman statues and temples were flamboyantly painted. Cecilie Brøns ...

Statues of priestesses holding items associated ... were discovered. The images were painted on the walls of a large banquet room. In January, archaeologists excavated a large private bathhouse ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideologies. But, in reality, ancient works of art were colorful and even ...

Beatrix Potter's popular character Peter Rabbit has been chosen as the design for an art trail's money-raising statues. Forty ...

DELOS, GREECE—Many museums around the world are filled with marble statues from ancient Greece ... but were, in fact, painted with many colors. Greek City Times reports that groundbreaking ...