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.
Marble statues originally painted.
But white marble couldn t have become the norm without some willful ignorance.
The sculpture of ancient greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient greek art as with the exception of painted ancient greek pottery almost no ancient greek painting survives.
Find out how shining a light on the statues can be all that 39 s required to see them as.
Original greek statues were brightly painted but after thousands of years those paints have worn away.
Polychrome is the art of painting with colors whether it is two dimensional pictures walls or three dimensional sculpture architectural elements.
Even though there was a bunch of evidence that ancient sculpture was painted artists art historians and the.
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.
The archaic from about 650 to 480 bc classical 480 323 and hellenistic.
At all periods there were great numbers.
The paint has worn off leaving the aged statues with the familiar blank white appearance we ve become accustomed to.