I wonder if those solid colors were just the base of the paint, and some shading effect was applied on top to make the statues look more realistic. I mean, I ha

I wonder if those solid colors were just the base of the paint, and some shading effect was applied on top to make the statues look more realistic. I mean, I have a hard time imagining that artists like the Ancient Greeks, who got the human shape so right, would also get the color so wrong. (By the way, the little color left on the Elgin Marbles look like a badly weathered garden gnome. Oh well.)