Walk through the Greek sculpture galleries of most museums and you'll see pedestal after pedestal of white, marble statues with sightless eyes ... hints of color remain on statues from antiquity.

is more lavish in its use of color. The figures, representing Zeus, Demeter and other Greek divinities, are executed in showy glazed terra cotta. To contemporary eyes, the effect appears Art Deco ...

The earliest work rendered into color is a Cycladic figure ... to our sensibility — the classical Greek, Hellenistic and Roman figures — the eyes feel crudely done. Even in the archaic ...

How does eye color work? The eyes are often the first ... Well, that little colored bit on the front is called the iris. It's named for the Greek goddess of the rainbow. But this entire ...

Vincent Tullo for The New York Times Supported by By Zachary Small Roko Rumora, a young historian, could probably walk blindfolded through the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Greek and Roman ...