Ancient Greek Sculpture: Unveiling the Shocking Truth About Color According to Western views of cultural history, the Greeks perfected art The Romans they copied it The Dark Ages they lost it And the Renaissance they rediscovered the perfection of antiquity. Now, most of these ideas were based on the perfection of human form of course and the idea was that the Greeks had created these beautiful natural idealized posed forms of the human body and everyone else they just kind of flattened and disf