The earliest work rendered into color is a Cycladic figure ... Nietzsche was convinced that the ancient Greeks couldn’t see blue or green and lived in a world of black, white, red and yellow.

It has long been known that in ancient Greece, marble sculptures, like architecture, were often painted in color, despite the popular view that such creations were originally white in appearance.

Ancient sculptors were very much interested ... The work lent a decorative flourish to a nouveau-riche household. To the Greeks, the marriage of color and form had deeper connotations, suggests ...

An archaeological dig on the island of Paros, renowned for its marble, has discovered an ancient Greek sculpture workshop.

The study adds to research from the past decade into the art of antiquity that has found that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colors. The myth of whiteness in ...

In ancient Greece, red lips were associated with sex ... those poor persons who had to rely on red wine sediment for their lip color likely fared better in the end.” During her reign in the ...

"Clearly it strikes a chord," she said, noting it follows recent interest in the notion that statues were painted in bright colors. "It's exciting to think about the ancient world as not just ...