[Sam Cree]

Thanks, that's fascinating. I'd heard somewhere along the line that some of the old statuary was painted, but have never seen a representation of it, or even much discussion of it. Thanks for the image.

I suppose that this practice of painting the figures did not extend to the so called "classical" days of Greek sculpture, Polykleitos, etc.?

[AnAmericanMother]

It absolutely did. Polyclitus's Hera was polychrome, gold and ivory. As was Phidias's famous statue of Athena in the Parthenon.

I just used the Peplos Kore' because I knew (from that long-ago archaeology class) that some of her original paint survived and figured that somebody had done a reconstruction (and they had.)

This is the copy in Nashville. That's real 24k gold, BTW.