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Zephyrus, 2022 The decoration of a togatus Roman sculpture found in Salamanca in 2015 has been examined to identify the applied pigments. The study was performed using environmental scanning electron microscopy –ESEM– with an energy-dispersive X-ray analyser –ESEM-EDX–
Jorge Souto +5 more
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Réflexions autour de la conservation-restauration de figurines en terre cuite
Pallas, 2023 Between 2015 and 2020, many Gallo-Roman terracotta figurines from three collections (musée Anne de Beaujeu, musée Bargoin, and musée archéologique de l’Oise) were studied and underwent a process of preservation-restoration.
Carine Bayol, Marie Petit
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Color and Light: A Hellenistic Terracotta Figurine of a Maenad from Myrina
Heritage, 2023 During the Hellenistic period and under the growing influence of the art of painting, the polychromy of Greek terracotta figurines focused not only on an elaborate rendering of color, but also on the interplay of light and shadow.
Brigitte Bourgeois +2 more
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Looking at Colour on post-Antique Sculpture [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2011 Review of: Vinzenz Brinkmann, Oliver Primavesi, Max Hollein, (eds), Circumlitio. The Polychromy of Antique and Medieval Sculpture. Liebighaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt am Main, 2010.
Jim Harris
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Between colour and pattern: Ruskin’s ambivalent theory of constructional polychromy
Interstices, 2017 John Ruskin offered an alternative paradigm to the debates on constructional polychromy in Victorian Britain. The paper considers the larger context of the debate and Ruskin’s place within it, which is that he favoured the decorative use of innate ...
Anuradha Chatterjee
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Heritage, 2023 A limestone relief fragment with a figure in a winged disk from the fifth-century BCE Hall of 100 Columns at Persepolis in southwestern Iran that entered the Harvard Art Museums’ collections in 1943 preserves significant traces of its original coloration
Susanne Ebbinghaus +4 more
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Couleurs et polychromie dans l’Antiquité
Perspective, 2018 The perception of a classical antiquity draped entirely in white that formed over time in Western imagination has petered out. Though the first discoveries relating to the polychromy of Greek and Roman art go back to the nineteenth century, especially in
Adeline Grand-Clément
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CHIMIA, 2001 An investigation of the polychromy of the Virgin with Child, dated 1170, from the collection of the Swiss National Museum, was carried out in the laboratory of conservation research at the Swiss National Museum in collaboration with the ETH ...
Marie Soares
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The Nike of Samothrace’s presences during the XX and XXI centuries: mysteries and victories
thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, 2021 Despite its fame, the Winged Victory of Samothrace keeps on fascinating not only every visitor of the Louvre museum, but also the eye of the connoisseur.
Élise Pampanay
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The Deceptive Surface: Perception and Sculpture’s “Skin”
Images Re-Vues, 2017 In the eighteenth century, sculptors such as Antonio Canova often experimented with polychromy, using wax or grind water to subtly tint their figures’ flesh. In this article, I examine viewers’ discomfort with these surface treatments.
Christina Ferando
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