Polychromy of Roman Marble Sculpture | Essay | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
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Ostia Antica HISTORY on X: "The majority of Greek and Roman marble sculpture was painted. Based on examination of “paint ghosts” on the original statues, traces of paint detectable with ultraviolet lights
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