Bright Greek marble statues such as the "Peplos Kore" may shock ... while the white skin of figures of young women "proclaimed grace and glow of youth," according to the museum's description.

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were ... Dating back to the Archaic period about 530 B.C., and made of marble from the Greek island of Paros, the figure of a young woman ...

So how and why did this myth of colorless marble statues begin? "This strange concept of colorless ... while the white skin of figures of young women "proclaimed grace and glow of youth," according to ...

To read about a marble sculpture unearthed in the ancient Greek city of Philippi, go to "A Young Hercules." ...