Ancient Greek and Roman artworks were brightly painted: How do we know?

“If ever a person from antiquity would enter a modern museum, a collection of ancient sculptures, marble sculptures,” muses archaeologist Dr. Vinzenz Brinkmann, “he would feel like entering a world of ghosts.” He and archaeologist Dr. Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann have analyzed polychromy in ancient Greek and Roman sculpture for decades. Their...