Archaeologists saw the traces of paint and described them ... further leading the public to associate the ancient Greek statues with whiteness. Hitler and the white sculpture In the 20th century ...

Several of these texts mentioned anointing statues of Greek and Roman deities—including ... Romans often decorated sculptures with colorful paint, as well as jewelry, fabrics, flowers, garlands ...

510 B.C. on the grave of the Greek warrior, Aristion ... even he is a relatively recent convert to the idea that the painting of statues actually constituted an art form. "What that means ...