witness the ways Classical scholarship is appropriated in the service of racism).
So I knew that a lot of the marble isn't the original. A lot of early greek statues were bronze and the marble was later copies. In both cases, they were painted given clothing and even tools and weapons. On the other hand, the people who re-painted the mosaics in Minoan Crete were given flack for damaging the remains of old paint. Perhaps the digital models are ideal, we can reconstruct and paint without actually changing how the piece was preserved.