Ils peignaient nos statues

For more than two centuries, archaeology has indeed unearthed numerous traces of colors and research continues thanks to the technological improvement of examination and analysis tools. Neither white when new, nor patinated by time, ancient marble statues were indeed polychrome.

But while the Ancients painted their statues, we have developed another imagination. In particular, the copies and casts, the references to antiquity in contemporary art from yesterday to today, which very rarely...