Notre Dame in flames

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I think all cathedrals were painted and for most people they were the only time they experienced colour in that way.

Pilgrims (who were hugely profitable for the cathedrals) wouldn't have thought it gaudy they would have been

amazed by the splendor. The colour blue came all the way from Afghanistan.

They discover more and more of that stuff.

They used to assume that ancient Greek statues were always "chaste white", and now we know that they were originally usually painted, and even had gold on them, from traces chemists find on the ancient statues.

And folks think of old masters paintings from previous centuries as having that dark look that those paintings have now. But when restorers finish removing oil and soot residue from the old masterpieces - they find that the paints were originally bright and full of light. Well duhhhhh!