Ancient Greeks and Romans often decorated sculptures with colorful paint, as well as jewelry, fabrics, flowers, garlands and ribbons. Today, ancient Greco-Roman statues housed in museums are ...

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have been a priestess in a fertility ...

In her article, Brøns notes that some oils and waxes were also used to protect and preserve the statues and their paint. Verity Platt, a professor at Cornell University's Department of Classics who ...