To us classical antiquity means white marble.
Marble statues color.
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.
At the time he was a graduate student at new york.
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.
The well to do wore inexpensive colors and the extremely wealthy wore royal colors.
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.
Most of them had lost their original paint after centuries of exposure to the elements.
The dress of the cambridge copy is painted.
The myth of the white marble started during the renaissance when we first began unearthing ancient statues.
The temples that housed them were in.
It is because of this lack of knowledge that renaissance sculptors intent on copying greek and roman forms carved their statues in unpainted white marble.