The color of life
Subtitle: polychromy in sculpture from antiquity to the present
By: edited by Roberta Panzanelli ; with Eike D. Schmidt and Kenneth Lapatin ; essays by Roberta Panzanelli ... [et al.].
Contributors: Panzanelli, Roberta.; Schmidt, Eike D.; Lapatin, Kenneth D. S.; J. Paul Getty Museum.
Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum; The Getty Research Institute
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780892369171; 9780892369188
Subjects: Polychromy -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Notes: "This publication is issued in conjunction with the exhibition The Color of Life, held at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa in Malibu, frpm March 6 to June 23, 2008"--P. [iv].

Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-180) and index.
Table of contents: value: Beyond the pale: polychromy and Western art / Roberta Panzanelli; value: The polychromy of ancient Greek sculpture / Vinzenz Brinkmann; value: Emerging colors: Roman sculptural polychromy revived / Jan Stubbe Østergaard; value: From color to black and white, and back again: the Middle Ages and early modern times / Marco Collareta; value: Colors of sculpture / Alex Potts.