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.
The paint has worn off leaving the aged statues with the familiar blank white appearance we ve become accustomed to.
At all periods there were great numbers.
Polychrome is the art of painting with colors whether it is two dimensional pictures walls or three dimensional sculpture architectural elements.
The archaic from about 650 to 480 bc classical 480 323 and hellenistic.
The myth of the white marble started during the renaissance when we first began unearthing ancient statues.
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.
Most of them had lost their original paint after centuries of exposure to the elements.
Even though there was a bunch of evidence that ancient sculpture was painted artists art historians and the.
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.
Original greek statues were brightly painted but after thousands of years those paints have worn away.