Gods Brought Down to Earth

I recall seeing an Open University program a few years back that attempted to reproduce the Parthenon of Athens as it would have been seen by the ancient Greeks, a program that transformed my understanding of classical art and antiquity. Further examples of such re-creations can be seen in the exhibition "Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity," based on 25 years of research by Vinzenz Brinkmann, former curator at the Glyptothek Museum in Germany. This is an exhibition that metaphorically brings the past to life and literally adds some colour to it in the process.