The wide-ranging colors used in ancient Greek statues are thought to have been ... as they customarily worked outdoors, while ...

Science has previously shown that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were frequently painted in warm colours ... Cicero and inscriptions on ancient Greek temples. In Delos, Greece, temple ...

510 B.C. on the grave of the Greek warrior ... in an exhibition called "Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity." Selected replicas were also featured earlier this year in ...

Based mainly on written evidence of various kinds, it can be shown that in ancient times, the sculptures, which now look pure plain white to us were not only painted, but also regularly perfumed.