Why are noses missing from so many egyptian statues.
Marble statues color.
The dress of the cambridge copy is painted.
To us classical antiquity means white marble.
The myth of the white marble started during the renaissance when we first began unearthing ancient statues.
As far as they knew unpainted white marble was precisely the way their ancient forebearers had sculpted.
While to our modern eye the bright colors of greek and roman statues scream tacky to the ancients who painted them it was expensive back in the day slaves wore rough cloth like undyed and unbleached icky tan colors.
Most of them had lost their original paint after centuries of exposure to the elements.
At the time he was a graduate student at new york.
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.
The temples that housed them were in.
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.