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Compound Specific Radiocarbon (14C) Dating of Our Colorful Past: from Theory to Practice

open access: yesHelvetica Chimica Acta, Volume 106, Issue 1, January 2023., 2023
Abstract For generations, humanity has preserved customs, places, objects, artistic expressions, and values – our cultural heritage. The use of color on cultural heritage objects is ubiquitous and found on artefacts from prehistoric rock art to present day contemporary artworks.
Laura Hendriks, Cyril Portmann
wiley   +1 more source

Reverend Marian Ignacy Morawski’s intellectual service

open access: yesFolia Historica Cracoviensia, 2000
Rev. Marian Ignacy Morawski was born on 15th August 1845 in Freiwald (today's Jesenik) in Austrian Silesia. He died in Krakow in the year 1901. The article reminisces on his life.
Stanisław Piech
doaj   +1 more source

Tracking Trajectories: Projecting Polychromy onto a Roman Relief from a Scottish Castle

open access: yesHeritage, 2023
The Antonine Wall Distance Sculptures are iconic and unique sculptural reliefs that marked Rome’s most north-westerly frontier across central Scotland. Their inscribed texts and iconography depict graphic tales of frontier life, and recent non-invasive ...
Louisa Campbell
doaj   +1 more source

Memorialising and Witnessing Christ’s Passion — New Perspectives on the 14th-Century Polychrome Wood Crucifix in Marttila, Finland

open access: yesICO Iconographisk Post, 2022
This article presents an investigation of a 14th-century polychrome wood crucifix from the Marttila Church (Sankt Mårtens in Swedish), and other stylistically closely related crucifixes in the medieval diocese of Turku (Åbo), Finland.
Katri Vuola
doaj  

Una statua in terracotta «selinuntina» ad Agrigento

open access: yesLes Carnets de l’ACoSt, 2023
Since 2018, the Université Bordeaux-Montaigne has been engaged in research activities at the Chthonian sanctuary in Agrigento. In 2021, archaeological excavations were carried out in the “tempietto” to the east of Gate V and in the so-called “torrione ...
Dario Giuliano
doaj   +1 more source

Application of energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry to polychrome terracotta sculptures from the Alcobaça Monastery, Portugal

open access: yesConservar Património, 2014
Portable energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (EDXRF) was used in the Alcobaça Monastery, in order to study the chromatic coatings applied to terracotta statues that belong to two seventeenth-century monumental groupings.
Agnès Le Gac   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evolution of the polychromy in L’viv architecture in the period of the second half of the 17th century to the first half of the 19th century

open access: yesTechnical Transactions, 2017
The article deals with the question of the evolution of polychromy in the L’viv architecture in the period of the second half of the 17th century to the first half of the 19th century.
Kazantseva Tetiana
doaj   +1 more source

Farven vender tilbage. Et “sandere billede” af antik skulptur

open access: yesPeriskop, 2017
The Re-Emergence of Colour. A “Truer Picture” of the Sculpture of Classical Antiquity Though often held to be a well-known fact, the consequences of the re-emergence of polychromy of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture have not yet made themselves ...
Jan Stubbe Østergaard
doaj   +1 more source

Sculpture, sculpteurs et ateliers (?) à Chambéry et alentour (vers 1480-v. 1530)

open access: yesCeROArt : Conservation, Exposition, Restauration d'Objets d'Art, 2021
This paper is the critical account of some of the contributions of the thesis defended by Me S. Boisset-Boisset on medieval sculpture in Western Savoy, 1480-1530, at Grenoble Alpes University, in November 2015. It is supported by a rigorous investigation
Laurence Riviere Ciavaldini
doaj   +1 more source

Archaeometric Study of Pictorial Stratigraphies from a Togatus Roman Sculpture found in Salamanca (Spain)

open access: yesZephyrus, 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
doaj   +1 more source

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