Colored Greek Statues

We know Greek statues weren't white. Now you can see them in color.

Walk through the Greek sculpture galleries of most museums and you'll see pedestal after pedestal of white, marble statues with sightless eyes. That's just how Ancient Greek sculpture was, right? Nope ...

Miami Herald

Ancient Greek statues weren’t white. They had colorful painted outfits, study says

Some of the most famous statues in the world are now revealing their true colors. The Elgin Marbles, a collection of ancient Greek sculptures, were not originally white, as they appear now. When they ...

ABC7 San Francisco

Legion of Honor reveals true color of ancient Greek sculptures

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Forget everything you thought you knew about ancient Greek sculptures. Those pristine, white statues we all saw in our history books were actually colorfully painted. The ...

Artnet

Art Bites: The Lost Colors of Ancient Greek Sculptures

What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from art ...

NPR

Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York City ...

The Washington Post

What if the ancient Greeks and Romans actually had terrible taste?

A reconstruction of a statue of a torso in armor from the Athenian Acropolis is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition “Chroma,” which features ...

Mercury News

Museums: Klimt, Rodin and ancient sculptures in their original colors enliven the Legion of Honor

San Francisco’s Legion of Honor museum in Lincoln Park, modeled on a French palace, always looks stately, and first-time visitors may assume it’s entirely formal and hush-hush inside, too. But there ...

The New York Times