Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of ArtĬhroma emphasizes the extensive presence and role of polychromy in ancient Mediterranean sculpture, both broadly and across media, geographies and time periods, from Cycladic idols of the third millennium B.C. Marble stucco on plaster cast, natural pigments in egg tempera, gold foil, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung (Liebieghaus Polychromy Research Project), Frankfurt am Main (on permanent loan from the Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main, Institut fur Archaologische Wissenschaften) original: Greece, marble, Delos, 2nd century B.C. Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, reconstruction of a marble statue of a woman wrapping herself in a mantle (so-called Small Herculaneum Woman), 2019. It is truly an exhibition that brings history to life through rigorous research and scientific investigation, and presents new information about works that have long been in the Met collection.” Marina Kellen French Director of the Met Max Hollein said, “This innovative exhibition activates the Met’s displays of ancient Greek and Roman art like never before by displaying colorful reconstructions of ancient sculptures throughout the galleries. Exploring the artistic practices and materials used in ancient polychromy, the exhibition highlights cutting-edge scientific methods used to identify ancient color and examines how color helped convey meaning in antiquity, and how ancient polychromy has been viewed and understood in later periods. On view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through March 26, Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color reveals the colorful backstory of polychromy - meaning “many colors” in Greek - and presents new discoveries of surviving ancient color on artworks in the Met’s world-class collection. NEW YORK – Ancient Greek and Roman sculpture was once colorful, vibrantly painted, and richly adorned with detailed ornamentation. Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 3D print in polymethyl metacrylate, natural pigments in egg tempera, gilded copper, gilded tin, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung (Liebieghaus Polychromy Research Project), Frankfurt am Main original: Greece, marble, circa 530 B.C. Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, reconstruction of marble finial in the form of a sphinx (detail), 2022.
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