Gods in Color: Polychromy in the Ancient World

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This stunning book uses 21st-century technology to show the unique colors of ancient sculpture. When Renaissance artists sought to imitate ancient sculpture, their medium of choice used to be pure, white marble, but little did they know that the works they emulated were at the start painted in dazzling and powerful hues—from red ocher and cinnabar to azurite and malachite. By illustrating painted reconstructions of well known sculptures in terms of original examples, this volume reveals how ancient artists in Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Aegean, Greece, and Rome brought unexpected and breathtaking color to their artistic endeavors. Accompanying these reproductions are watercolors of Greece’s landscapes dating from different years, which show how our perception of ancient art has changed over the years. Generously illustrated, this book testifies that the study of ancient sculpture is incomplete without an working out of the many ways in which color used to be employed to bring such art to life.

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