Renaissance artists thought statues from antiquity were bare marble and fashioned ... scale excavations unearthed sculptures with traces of color on them, the colorful finds did not make it ...

White marble has been the norm ever since the Renaissance, when classical antiquities first began to emerge from the earth. The sculpture of Trojan priest Laocoön and his two sons struggling with ...

But, in reality, ancient works of art were colorful and even scented ... in ancient Greece were painted and not left with the white marble exposed. Yet many people today are surprised to learn ...