" Other show at The MET "

Ancient Greek and Roman sculpture was once colorful, vibrantly painted and richly adorned with detailed ornamentation.  

"Chroma; Ancient Sculpture in Color" reveals the colorful backstory of polychromy - meaning "many colors" in Greek - and presents new discoveries of surviving ancient color and artworks in The MET's world-class collection.  Exploring the practices and materials used in ancient polychromy, the exhibition highlights cutting-edge scientific methods used to identify ancient color and examines how color helped convey meaning in antiquity, and how ancient polychromy has been viewed and understood 

in later periods.                                                           (insert from MET publication)

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Even though this is how those sculptures were created in the beginning,

for me without colors are more attractive.

But, it is great to see how the Greeks and Romans used colors.