An upheaval in the shared perception of what the past looked like

In the February 2, 2016 issue of The New York Times (“Temple of Dendur’s Lost Colors Brought to Life”), Joshua Barone describes how the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s MediaLab has created digital projections which restore the original painted colors  to one section of the Temple of Dendur. He notes that the MediaLab will be working on other projections. Remembering how it was long thought that Michelangelo was a draftsman rather than a colorist until the restoration of the Sistine Ceiling undermined that notion, one can only imagine the upheaval  in the shared perception of what the past looked like that such digital restorations will bring.