For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood as timeless symbols of classical beauty.

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York ...

Archaeologists have known that Greco-Roman statues were coloured ... So why does the myth of the marble white Greek statue persist? Historian Philippe Jockey looks into this question in his ...

Published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, the study adds to evidence that statues were more than slabs of white marble to those living in ancient times. The study’s Danish author ...

"A white marble statue was not intended to be perceived ... traces of pigments from long-faded paint on ancient Greek and Roman statues, showing that works long assumed to be white were in fact ...

The white marble sculpture, which stands slightly larger than human height, depicts a middle-aged man with a short beard, dressed in a Roman toga with a scroll in his only remaining hand.

But the museum’s just-opened show in this realm, “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection,” deserves particular attention because of the sheer beauty and ...

The museum said the sculpture is slightly larger than human height, and made of fine white marble. The only damage to the “unique” Roman-era statue was to the middle-aged man’s right wrist ...