"An Insight into Gandharan Art: Materials and Techniques of Polychrome Decoration"
Anna Lluveras-Tenorio, Alessia Andreotti, Fabio Talarico, Stefano Legnaioli, Luca M. Olivieri, Maria Perla Colombini , Ilaria Bonaduce and Simona Pannuzi
"Re-presenting in Colours at the ‘Palace of Nestor’: Original Polychromy and Painting Materials"
Hariclia Brecoulaki, Andreas G. Karydas, Vassilis Perdikatsis and Maria P. Colombini
in J. Bennet (ed.),Representations. Material and Immaterial Modes of Communication in the Bronze Age Aegean, Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology, Oxford, Oxbow Books 2021, 53-106.
in D. Wharton (ed.), A Cultural History of Color in Antiquity, (A Cultural History of Color, vols. 1-6, edited by C. P. Biggam and K. Wolf). London: Bloomsbury Press. 2021. 135-154 and 155-176.
"The Polychromy of Etruscan Sculpture on the basis of selected objects from European Museums" (Doctoral Thesis)
Julia Großekathöfer
Published by Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
This publication is based on the visual examination and photographic documentation of more than seventy-five exemplary Etruscan objects. This alone gives the reader a first insight into the aesthetic and narrative functions of colour in Etruscan sculpture. The text section focuses on the evaluation of the material, while the catalog illustrates the description of the objects. Finally, a tabular overview provides the basis for determining more precisely the painting technique of an Etruscan object in its dependence on form and time.
Dr Großekathöfer obtained her doctorate on 22 July 2016 and is currently doing a scientific traineeship - in addition to her work as a museum educator - at the LWL-Römermuseum Haltern am See.
Editors: Cecilie Brøns, Susanna Harris, Marta Żuchowska
Published by Oxbow Books.
This volume provides an ambitious synopsis of the complex, colourful world of textiles in ancient Mediterranean iconography. A wealth of information on ancient textiles is available from depictions such as sculpture, vase painting, figurines, reliefs and mosaics. Includes several chapters on polychromy in ancient sculpture.
"The Painted Tetrarchic Reliefs of Nicomedia: Uncovering the Colourful Life of Diocletian’s Forgotten Capital"
Tuna Şare Ağtürk
Published by Brepols.
The book presents the very first discussion of an astonishing group of painted Roman reliefs discovered from an imperial complex, at the centre of Diocletian’s empire at Nicomedia.
"Les couleurs des albâtres anglais. Polychromie, production et perception médiévales"
Markus Schlicht, Aurélie Mounier, Maud Mulliez,in collaboration with Pascal Mora and Romain Pacanowski.
Published by Ausonius editions.
The bookdetails the work of a multidisciplinary team on the analysis and reconstruction of the polychromy of several English alabaster panels preserved in the Bordeaux region, andis available online.
Download a free PDF copy of the book here and a short video summaryhere.
Published - 08/11/2021.
"The Nature of Art: Pliny the Elder on Materials"
Andreas Grüner, Anna Anguissola (eds.)
Published by Brepols.
This volume of collected essays addresses the presentation of artistic processes and their materials in the Natural History and focuses on the issues that lie at the root of Pliny's work: his account of the technological, economical, ideological, and aesthetic aspects of materials.
