Gods in color
Subtitle: painted sculpture of classical antiquity
By: idea & concept: Vinzenz Brinkmann und Raimund Wünsche ; color reconstructions: Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, Sylvia Kellner, Joseph Köttl ; sculptural reconstructions: Olaf Herzog ... [et al.] ; translation: Rodney Batstone ... [et al.] ; exhibition organized by Susanne Ebbinghaus and Amy Brauer
Contributors: Brinkmann, Vinzenz; Wünsche, Raimund; Koch-Brinkmann, Ulrike; Kellner Sylvia; Köttl, Joseph; Herzog, Olaf; Batstone, Rodney; Ebbinghaus, Susanne; Brauer, Amy; Arthur M. Sackler Museum; Stiftung Archäologie (Munich, Germany)
Published: 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Classical Sculpture; Exhibitions; Reproduction; Relief (Sculpture), Ancient
Notes: "Exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, in cooperation with Staatliche Antikensammlungen and Glyptothek, Munich [and] Stiftung Archäologie, Munich, September 22, 2007-January 20, 2008"--T. p.

Full-scale reproductions of ancient sculptures with color applied as determined by research and technology to have been originally present.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Research in the polychromy of ancient sculpture : introduction to the exhibition / Vinzenz Brinkmann; title: The coloring of archaic and early classical sculpture / Vinzenz Brinkmann; title: Girl or goddess? The riddle of the "Peplos Kore" from the Athenian Acropolis / Vinzenz Brinkmann; title: The weighing of the souls: painted names on the "Siphnian Treasury" / Vinzenz Brinkmann; title: The funerary monument of Aristion / Vinzenz Brinkmann; title: The nude marble colossus from Samos / Vinzenz Brinkmann; title: The prince and the goddess: the rediscovered color on the pediment statues of the Aphaia Temple / Vinzenz Brinkmann; title: Pigment analysis of the sculptures of the Aphaia Temple of Aegina / Heinrich Piening and Heike Stege; title: Armor on the naked skin? The early classical "Cuirass-Torso" from the Athenian Acropolis / Vinzenz Brinkmann; title: The austere coloration of the Parthenon sculptures / Vinzenz Brinkmann; title: A virtual Parthenon metope: restoration and colour / Dyfri Williams, Peter Higgs, Thorsten Opper, Mark Timson -- On the coloring of the Munich bronze head with a Victor's fillet / Raimund Wünsche -- The grave stele of Paramythion / Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, Richard Posamentir -- Ornament and painting of an Attic grave lekythos (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen) / Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann-Richard Posamentir -- The blue eyes of the Persians: the colored sculpture of the time of Alexander and the Hellenistic period / Vinzenz Brinkmann -- A colorful legacy: the colorants of the "Alexander-Sarcophagus" in Istanbul / Heinrich Piening -- The coloring of the relief background in Archaic and classical Greek sculpture / Elena Walter-Karydi -- Caligula in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen reconstructing the polychromy of a Roman portrait / Jan Stubbe Ostergaard -- ; title: Pigment and binding medium analysis of the polychrome treatment of the marble bust of Caligula / Heike Stege, Irene Fiedler, Ursula Baumer -- The coloration of the Caligula portrait / Vinzenz Brinkmann, Sylvia Kellner, Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, Jan Stubbe Østergaard -- Colorful sculptures in ancient literature? The textual evidence revisited / Oliver Primavesi -- Colors and painting techniques / Vinzenz Brinkmann -- Preparation and application of mineral pigments / Michael Price.