Gods in color
Subtitle: polychromy in the ancient world
By: Vinzenz Brinkmann, Renée Dreyfus, and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, editors ; with contributions by John Camp, Heinrich Piening, Oliver Primavesi
Contributors: Legion of Honor (San Francisco, Calif.)
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9783791357072
Subjects: Ancient Sculpture; Classical Sculpture; Polychromy; Exhibitions
Description: "This stunning book uses 21st-century technology to reveal the original colors of ancient sculpture. When Renaissance artists sought to imitate ancient sculpture, their medium of choice was pure, white marble, but little did they know that the works they emulated were originally painted in dazzling and powerful hues-from red ocher and cinnabar to azurite and malachite. By illustrating painted reconstructions of well-known sculptures in relation to original examples, this volume reveals how ancient artists in Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Aegean, Greece, and Rome brought unexpected and breathtaking color to their artworks. Accompanying these reproductions are watercolors of Greece's landscapes dating from different years, which show how our perception of ancient art has changed over time. Generously illustrated, this book testifies that the study of ancient sculpture is incomplete without an understanding of the many ways that color was employed to bring such art to life"--
Notes: Issued in connection with an exhibition held Oct. 28, 2017-Jan. 7, 2018, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A History of Research and Scholarship on the Polychromy of Ancient Sculpture / Vinzenz Brinkmann; title: On the Polychromy of Ancient Sculpture / Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann; title: Rediscovering Color : Polychrome Art from Ancient Egypt and the Near East / Renée Dreyfus; title: The Discovery of the Polychromy of Ancient Greek Sculpture : Winckelmann's Research on Statutes and Texts / Oliver Primavesi; title: Color and Light : Dodwell and Pomardi in Greece / John Camp; title: Ancient Paints and Painting Techniques : Methods of Investigation / Vinzenz Brinkmann, Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, and Heinrich Piening; title: Ancient Paints and Painting Techniques : Methods of Invetigation; title: Catalogue of the Exhibition.