Classical greek statues painted well known are the colorful statues and buildings of the assyrians and egyptians temples but when it comes to the greeks a surprising fact to many people is the polychrome sculpture of the classical era.
Marble statues originally painted.
Polychrome is the art of painting with colors whether it is two dimensional pictures walls or three dimensional sculpture architectural elements.
The archaic from about 650 to 480 bc classical 480 323 and hellenistic.
Modern scholarship identifies three major stages in monumental sculpture in bronze and stone.
The paint has worn off leaving the aged statues with the familiar blank white appearance we ve become accustomed to.
To give a tangible feeling of the originals the husband and wife brinkmann team have recreated some of these aged statues and painted them in the colors they would have borne in their glory days.
Even though there was a bunch of evidence that ancient sculpture was painted artists art historians and the.
Original greek statues were brightly painted but after thousands of years those paints have worn away.
But white marble couldn t have become the norm without some willful ignorance.
At all periods there were great numbers.
The myth of the white marble started during the renaissance when we first began unearthing ancient statues.