Recent articles & book chapters

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

Louisa Campbell

Heritage 2023, 6(4), 3722-3744

Read more here: https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage6040197 

Published online - 14/04/2023.

"Making and working Egyptian blue – a review of the archaeological evidence"

Ilia Kovalev, Alexandra S. Rodler, Cecilie Brøns and Thilo Rehren

Journal of Archaeological Science, 2023153, 105772.

Read more here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2023.105772

Published online - 08/04/2023.

"New Evidence about the Polychromy of Early Imperial Cycle from the Augusteum of Rusellae (Tuscany)"

Paolo Liverani, Susanna Bracci, Roberta Iannaccone, Sara Lenzi and Donata Magrini

Heritage 2023, 6(4), 3385-3401.

Read more here: https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage6040179

Published online - 23/03/2023.

"Color and Light: A Hellenistic Terracotta Figurine of a Maenad from Myrina"

Brigitte Bourgeois, Giovanni Verri and Violaine Jeammet

Heritage 2023, 6(3), 3005-3024.

Read more here: https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage6030160

Published - 12/03/2023.

 

"Polychromy in Ancient Greek Sculpture: New Scientific Research on an Attic Funerary Stele at the Metropolitan Museum of Art"

Elena Basso, Federico Carò and Dorothy H. Abramitis

Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(5), 3102.

Read more here: https://doi.org/10.3390/app13053102

Published online - 28/02/2023.

"The Gosford Wellhead: An Ancient Roman Masterpiece"

Seán Hemingway, with a contribution by Dorothy H. Abramitis, Federico Carò, and Adriana Rizzo

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v.80, no. 3 (Winter, 2023)

Read online or download the PDF, here:

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/The_Gosford_Wellhead_An_Ancient_Roman_Masterpiece

Published - 08/02/23 

"The colours of Segesta. Searching for the traces of the lost pigments"

Veronica Ciaramitaro, Francesco Armetta, Monica de Cesare and Maria Luisa Saladino

Journal of Cultural Heritage, 59 (2023): 30-37.

Read more here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2022.11.003

Published online - 20/11/2022.

"A Late Archaic/Early Classical Greek Relief with Two Hoplites (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek IN 2787)"

Jan Stubbe Østergaard and Adam Schwartz

Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, 2022, 137, S. 1–37.

Read more here: https://doi.org/10.34780/1bb3-3a3d

To read a sample of the article (pp. 1 - 10), see:

https://reichert-verlag.de/media/pdf/9783752006650_sample.pdf

Published - 27/10/2022.

"Multi-technique analysis of pigments on sandstone sculptures: Renaissance re-painting of a Roman relief"

Louisa Campbell and Margaret Smith

Herit Sci 10, 156 (2022).

Read free and open-access here: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-022-00790-7

Published - 05/10/2022.

Recent books

"Colour in Late Antique Art: An Aesthetic Exploration of Polychromy"

Bente Kiilerich

Published open-access on Academia.edu

Published - 13/04/2023.

"Au Plaisir Des Dieux: Expériences Du Sensible Dans Les Rituels En Grèce Ancienne"

Adeline Grand-Clément

Published by Anacharsis Publishing

In ancient Greece the gods were omnipresent, from the clouds to the smallest sprig of rosemary. Rituals flourished. Soliciting deities was both frequent and extraordinary – and always possibly dangerous.

We know the procedures mobilized in these fragile moments of the "kitchen of sacrifice"; We are less informed about the range of senses that had to be awakened at the crucial moment of the encounter with the gods.
Adeline Grand-Clément embarks here on an investigation as close as possible to the feelings of the participants, meticulously seeking to grasp how darkness or light, colours, smells, touch, sounds or landscapes shaped specific sensory spaces, considered effective because they satisfy the pleasure of the gods. 

More here.

Published - 03/03/2023.

"The Colours of medieval English Alabaster Panels. Polychromy, production and perception" (English Edition)

Markus Schlicht, Aurélie Mounier, Maud Mulliez, in collaboration with Pascal Mora and Romain Pacanowski.

Published by Ausonius editions.

The book details the work of a multidisciplinary team on the analysis and reconstruction of the polychromy of several English alabaster panels preserved in the Bordeaux region, and is available online.

Download a free PDF copy of the book here.

Published - 31/01/2023.

"Seeing Color in Classical Art: Theory, Practice, and Reception, from Antiquity to the Present"

Jennifer M. S. Stager

Published by Cambridge University Press

The remains of ancient Mediterranean art and architecture that have survived over the centuries present the modern viewer with images of white, the color of the stone often used for sculpture. Antiquarian debates and recent scholarship, however, have challenged this aspect of ancient sculpture. There is now a consensus that sculpture produced in the ancient Mediterranean world, as well as art objects in other media, were, in fact, polychromatic. Color has consequently become one of the most important issues in the study of classical art. Jennifer Stager's landmark book makes a vital contribution to this discussion. Analyzing the dyes, pigments, stones, earth, and metals found in ancient art works, along with the language that writers in antiquity used to describe color, she examines the traces of color in a variety of media. Stager also discusses the significance of a reception history that has emphasized whiteness, revealing how ancient artistic practice and ancient philosophies of color significantly influenced one another.

More here.

Published - 25/11/2022.

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