Do you prefer with or without color? I admit the gaudy colors can feel jarring but if you imagine the entire architecture as colored, then the statues might not stand out as much. A polychrome version of the ancient world is fascinating, and it leaves a lot of debate as to how the statues were colored in the first place. Some scholars suggest the colors may have been more subtle and blended, but with so much pigment lost over time, we’re left placing together only fragments of the original visio