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The Greek and Roman Galleries at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art are a wonder of white marble, an astonishing acre of it – world-famous, flooded with light, statues clean and gleaming. So, what's wrong with this picture?
"They would have all been painted," said Marco Leona, the Met's chief scientist. Painted, not white? "So, this experience of light and whiteness isn't what the Romans and the Greeks would have experienced?" asked correspondent Martha Teichner.
"No. In many ways, it's an accident of time and nature, in many ways it's an accident of interpretation," Leona said...
