Now, look at Michelangelo's Pieta, or his David: white marble masterpieces of the Renaissance, inspired by Greek and Roman sculpture. Why, by the 1500s, had white replaced color? Leona said ...

Walk through the Greek sculpture galleries of most museums and you'll see pedestal after pedestal of white, marble statues with ... hints of color remain on statues from antiquity.

Although we often romanticize the bare marble of ancient sculpture today ... but did not employ what W.E.B. Du Bois would call a "color prejudice." Although Romans generally differentiated ...

But after just a short period of air exposure, the thin layer of colour wore away to reveal the plain base marble. Luckily for the restorers, there are still some clues of their former glory ...

How did color become gauche? Where does this aesthetic disgust come from? To many, the pristine whiteness of marble statues is the expectation and thus the classical ideal. But the equation of ...