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Not Roman, Greek. The Greek sculptures were painted. Roman sculptors found the Greek marble beautiful without paint, and didn’t paint theirs.

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I think it was the renaissance sculptors that did that, not the romans.

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Wikipedia disagrees: Roman Sculpture

Most statues were actually far more lifelike and often brightly colored when originally created; the raw stone surfaces found today is due to the pigment being lost over the centuries.

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One of Ceasar’s statue was found to have pigment residues. You can find an image of how it would’ve looked like when it was painted.

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