Roman writer Cicero referenced the treatment of a statue ... Men were depicted as having darker skin tones, as they customarily worked outdoors, while women were often painted white, since the ...

Examining various ancient texts, Brøns found that the practice of applying perfumes to sculptures is described with surprising regularity. The great Roman ... were painted.” “In some cases ...

Based mainly on written evidence of various kinds, it can be shown that in ancient times, the sculptures, which now look pure plain white to us were not only painted, but also regularly perfumed.

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain ... got the opportunity to see how the statues would actually have appeared when they were ...

Archaeologists such as Germany’s Vinzenz Brinkmann are reconstructing some of the colorfully painted ... and Roman sites was bringing forth great numbers of statues, and there were scholars ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.