They then sent these to world fairs, further leading the public to associate the ancient Greek statues with whiteness. In the 20th century, fascism appropriated the idea of white figures of ...

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

Several of these texts mentioned anointing statues of Greek and Roman deities—including ... statues housed in museums are typically stark white and devoid of decoration. But research by Brøns ...

DELOS, GREECE—Many museums around the world are filled with marble statues from ... in their glistening white form, but were, in fact, painted with many colors. Greek City Times reports that ...

but also immediately produced casts from which they made white plaster statues. They then sent these to world fairs, further leading the public to associate the ancient Greek statues with whiteness.