Chroma, sculpture in color from antiquity to today / edited by Seán Hemingway, Sarah Lepinski, and Vinzenz Brinkmann

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hemingway, Seán, editor, contributor.

Lepinski, Sarah, editor, contributor.

Brinkmann, Vinzenz, editor, contributor.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), organizer, issuing body.

Series:

Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Polychromy--Congresses.

Polychromy.

Color in art--Congresses.

Color in art.

Polychromy--Greece--Congresses.

Polychromy--Rome--Congresses.

Sculpture, Greek--Congresses.

Sculpture, Greek.

Sculpture, Roman--Congresses.

Sculpture, Roman.

polychromy.

Sculpture--History.

Genre:

proceedings (reports)

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

259 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Distribution:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press

Other Title:

Sculpture in color from antiquity to today

Title of exhibition: Chroma : ancient sculpture in color

Place of Publication:

New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2025]

Contents:

Director's Foreword

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Seán Hemingway and Sarah Lepinski

Investigation into the Colors and Narratives of Greek and Roman Sculpture / Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann

Chroma, the exhibition

Chroma : Ancient Sculpture in Color and Ancient Polychromy at The Met / Seán Hemingway and Sarah Lepinski

Discovering Decoration on Greek and Roman Marble Sculpture at The Met / Dorothy H. Abramitis

In Search of Ancient Pigments : The Contribution of Scientific Research to Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color / Federico Carò and Elena Basso

Colors of the Sphinx : The Physical Reconstruction as an Indispensable Part of the Investigation Process / Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, Vinzenz Brinkmann, and Heinrich Piening

3D Imaging the Sphinx : Challenges, Solutions, and Opportunities / Scott Geffert and Jesse Ng

The discovery and reconstruction of ancient polychromy

Gilding Marble in Context : The Princeton Alexander from Hermopolis Magna, Egypt / Mark B. Abbe and Adriana Rizzo

Revealing Color and Illusion in the Grave Stele of Poseides at the J. Paul Getty Museum / Marie Svoboda, Kenneth Lapatin, and Monica Ganio

Evoking Enargeia (ἐνάργεια) : The Investigation and Color Reconstruction of the Portrait Bust of Psyche from Melos / Giovanni Verri, Hariclia Brecoulaki, Ioanna Mennenga, and Despina Ignatiadou

Experimenting with Physical and Digital Reconstructions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1891-1892 and 2021) / Laure Marest and Meredith Binnette

Color, medium, and materiality in ancient art

The Matter of Gender in Ancient Greek Painting / Jennifer Stager

Adjusting the Lens of Race : A Reexamination of Skin Color in Representations of Aithiopes in Ancient Greek Vase Painting / Najee Olya

In Living Color? Aethiopians in Roman Sculpture / Sinclair W. Bell

Color the Temple of Dendur Project : Inspiring Ways Forward for Ancient Polychromy Studies / Erin A. Peters

Polychromy in sculpture from antiquity to the Renaissance

Color and Radiance in The Met's Galleries for Ancient Near Eastern Art / Jean-François de Lapérouse and Michael Seymour

Color in Mexica (Aztec) Sculpture / Laura Filloy Nadal, Bertina Olmedo Vera, and Teresa Jiménez-Millas

Reassessing Medieval Marbles at The Met : Colorem and Polychromy in Fourteenth-Century Sculpture / Lucretia Kargère, Shirin Fozi, and Adriana Rizzo

Pictorial Effects in the Relief of Mars, Venus, and Cupid with Vulcan at His Forge Attributed to Gian Marco Cavalli / Denise Allen

Re-creations and reception of ancient polychromy

Winckelmann on Polychrome and Monochrome Sculptures in Greek Art / Oliver Primavesi

Reconstruction, Display, and Narrating Knowledge in the Museum / Shiyanthi Thavapalan

"The Parthenon in Its Glory" : A Plaster Model in Color / Andrea Schmölder-Veit

Polychromy Exhibitions in the United States at the End of the Nineteenth Century / Ellen E. Perry and Laure Marest

Radical Hues : Color and Ornament, from Owen Jones to Postmodernism and Beyond / Abraham Thomas

Glossary

Bibliography

Photograph and Illustration Credits

Notes:

"The essays in this volume were first presented at the symposium Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color, which took place at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on March 24 and March 25, 2023. The symposium was held in conjunction with the exhibition Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color, on view from July 5, 2022, through March 26, 2023, and organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in collaboration with the Liebieghaus Sculpture Collection, Frankfurt am Main."--Colophon

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-257)

ISBN:

9781588397966

1588397963

OCLC:

1517561196

Publisher Number:

CIPO000241362