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Color induction in the restoration of architecture in historic city centers

open access: yesColor Research &Application, Volume 48, Issue 5, Page 497-512, September/October 2023., 2023
Abstract In the restoration of historic facades, specialists need to tackle the problem of colors applied to the ornamental elements that appear different on a facade than if they were isolated, because the colors of the surrounding surfaces influence them through color induction.
Juan Serra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Monochromatic design in a polychrome world. Why our cities have become increasingly gray: A dichotomy between production and reception in architectural color design

open access: yesColor Research &Application, Volume 48, Issue 5, Page 543-556, September/October 2023., 2023
Abstract Color is a central component of human experience, yet when we narrow our focus to the practice of city planning and architecture, color only plays a marginal role in the initial phases of the design process. This paper reviews various approaches to using color on buildings: for example, the evolution of regional styles due to the availability ...
Ralf Weber
wiley   +1 more source

Color coordination project for the historic shipyard site of La Ciotat: A geopoetic approach to urban color design

open access: yesColor Research &Application, Volume 48, Issue 5, Page 433-444, September/October 2023., 2023
Preliminary study of the colors of the cranes on the site of the shipyards of the Ciotat‐Nacarat Color Design 2018. Abstract The color coordination project focuses on an important industrial heritage site in the Mediterranean—the shipyards of the town of La Ciotat, which is situated in southeastern France.
Xavière Ollier
wiley   +1 more source

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

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

The Colours of medieval English Alabaster Panels. Polychromy, production and perception

open access: yes, 2023
Cet ouvrage a été réalisé pour Ausonius Éditions par UN@ Éditions, plateforme régionale d'édition universitaire numérique en libre accès. Between c. 1350 and 1550, English sculptors carved thousands of panels depicting religious scenes from alabaster ...
MOUNIER, Aurélie   +4 more
core   +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

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

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