Thanks rdl6989. Some weirdo at the British Museum had all the remaining original paint sandblasted off the Elgin Marbles (from the Parthenon) because he just thought it looked better. The Greeks and Romans decorated their statues and other carvings with paint jobs, basically the way we moderns do with lawn dwarves and such. The Egyptians also painted up their sculptures to make them appear more lifelike, despite their scale, and possible mythological figures.
