Question

26)Most people imagine stark white temples and plain marble statues as the ideal of ancient Greek art. Nothing could be further from the truth, as the ancient Greeks lavished their statues, sculptures, and buildings with bright colors. The common misconception of plainly adorned Hellenic art can be blamed on the ancient Greeks’ biggest proponents in history. Enlightenment-era classicists eagerly visited ancient ruins in the eighteenth century and saw artifacts that had been weathered to plain white stone through decades of neglect. By the time nineteenth-century archaeologists found proof that the Parthenon and images of the Gods were meant to be in vivid hues, eminent scholars in Europe refused to countenance that pure white marble was not antiquity’s aesthetic paradigm. Widespread acknowledgement of the ancient Greeks’ adoration of bright colors only came in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as scientific tests proved ancient statuary and buildings had once been covered in polychrome paint.
It can be inferred from the passage that __________.
Select one:
a. only ancient Greeks built marble statues
b. the ancient Greeks have influenced many subsequent cultures with their art
c. all ancient cultures painted their statues bright colors
d. all subsequent cultures rejected Greek styles​

Answer 1

It can be inferred from the passage that all ancient cultures painted their statues in bright colors.

Most people imagine stark white temples and plain marble statues as the ideal of ancient Greek art. Nothing could be further from the truth, as the ancient Greeks lavished their statues, sculptures, and buildings with bright colors.

The common misconception of plainly adorned Hellenic art can be blamed on the ancient Greeks’ biggest proponents in history.

So, Option c) is the correct answer.