Gods in color

On the whole a very neat work, as the contributors explore how the image of the classical world as being a radiant white came to be, with some consideration of all the racist baggage that became attached to that notion. This is before moving on to how our understanding has changed about what (mostly) Greek and Roman sculpture actually looked like, with some very impressive reconstructions. Any downsides? Not really. Maybe that this has almost instantly become an expensive collector's item; at least it does seem to have a fairly wide availability as a library item.

Those austere, serene, white marble statues from antiquity that we’ve gazed on in person or in books have revealed their glorious pallet of colours in designs we may never have thought of. 21st century technology has revealed the colours debased by time, and insights to the matter used to create them. The authors use before and after photos to suggest what these statues could have looked when first displayed publicly.