Not so to the greeks who thought of their gods in living color and portrayed them that way too.
Marble statues color.
The myth of the white marble started during the renaissance when we first began unearthing ancient statues.
The well to do wore inexpensive colors and the extremely wealthy wore royal colors.
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.
The temples that housed them were in.
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.
Why are noses missing from so many egyptian statues.
As far as they knew unpainted white marble was precisely the way their ancient forebearers had sculpted.
Most of them had lost their original paint after centuries of exposure to the elements.
The dress of the cambridge copy is painted.
To us classical antiquity means white marble.