Whitewashing Antiquity by Imara IkhumenPosted on February 12, 2019April 8, 2021 Despite the fact that ancient Greeks would most certainly have found white marble sculptures to be ugly and bare, scholars have chosen to perpetuate the idea that white marble was/is the pinnacle of Grecian beauty in art. CriticismInterdisciplinary Seminarancient greece antiquity art history classics color race sculpture whiteness