A virtual sculpture gallery does the obvious thing for our internet age. It shows a selection of ancient sculpture, Greek, Hellenistic and Roman, in its original and its digitally painted guise. I've put one pair on this blog, in the sculpture folder of the picture section.

Here's another one that caught my attention: I think the colouring softens her, and changes her from a rather forbidding matron to a nice old dear.

I do recommend that you visit the site, not only for the colouring, but also for the couple of pictures that you can turn round 360 degrees by holding the mouse button down and dragging it across the picture. Fun.

By the way, I hope that the link I have given will get you past the annoyingly slow flash welcome page.

Thanks to David Meadows and Explorator for putting me on to this one.