Polychrome is the art of painting with colors whether it is two dimensional pictures walls or three dimensional sculpture architectural elements.
Marble statues originally painted.
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.
At all periods there were great numbers.
But white marble couldn t have become the norm without some willful ignorance.
The paint has worn off leaving the aged statues with the familiar blank white appearance we ve become accustomed to.
Modern scholarship identifies three major stages in monumental sculpture in bronze and stone.
Most of them had lost their original paint after centuries of exposure to the elements.
The myth of the white marble started during the renaissance when we first began unearthing ancient statues.
Find out how shining a light on the statues can be all that 39 s required to see them as.
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.
Original greek statues were brightly painted but after thousands of years those paints have worn away.