The dress of the cambridge copy is painted.
Marble statues color.
Not so to the greeks who thought of their gods in living color and portrayed them that way too.
The myth of the white marble started during the renaissance when we first began unearthing ancient statues.
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 temples that housed them were in.
At the time he was a graduate student at new york.
As far as they knew unpainted white marble was precisely the way their ancient forebearers had sculpted.
To us classical antiquity means white marble.
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.
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.