Walk through the Greek sculpture galleries of most museums and you'll see pedestal after pedestal of white, marble statues with sightless eyes. That's just how Ancient Greek sculpture was, right? Nope ...
The publication of “Chroma” represents an important shift by museums toward recognizing polychromy and its entanglement with ...
What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from art ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Forget everything you thought you knew about ancient Greek sculptures. Those pristine, white statues we all saw in our history books were actually colorfully painted. The ...
A number of scientific recreations will be displayed alongside pieces from the Met's collection. A recreation of the Met's Archaic-period Sphinx finial—which once crowned a grave stele in the Museum's ...
Two German archaeologists use science to recreate the lost colors of antiquity. Historians debate just how authentic their version of the past really is. Groundbreaking or garish? Reconstruction of a ...
A new exhibit in New York shows what the statues ACTUALLY looked like. Walk through the Greek sculpture galleries of most museums and you'll see pedestal after pedestal of white, marble statues with ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Forget everything you thought you knew about ancient Greek sculptures. Those pristine, white statues we all saw in our history books were actually colorfully painted. The ...