WHITE OR COLORED?

[Sulla]

By the way as an artist I have noticed something. They take the traces of color they have found and recreat only using that color. But the look is rather odd for the people as they have no shading etc. Probobly what they are showing is what a basecoat would look like. Then the painter would go back and paint shadows and highlights to make them look more real and for the details to stand out.

I'd quibble with the latter part. The paint may not necessarily reflect reality. For instance, why is the statue's hair brown when we know Augustus and Caligula were blond ?

The above is also why why you see it as a little to dark.

Think of this level of detail painted on the statue. http://www.philipresheph.com/demodokos/iphig/iphig5.jpg