Still, there was evidence of their polychromy, especially throughout Greek literature. In Euripides’s play Helen, the leading lady famously remarks, “If only I could shed my beauty and assume ...

The fact the original polychromy has been preserved with its ochre, brown, blue, red and lilac shades adds to the bewitching charm of an expressive composition where the anthropomorphic supports ...

She regularly noted in her bio that she specialized in polychromy—looking at pigments and their materials for anything out of the ordinary. "Technical imaging reveals information about reused ...

In the midst of major renovations, the museum is slowly getting back on its feet. I count my visit to the Hispanic Society of America on Thursday as a Christmas present to myself. Part of it’s ...

On the one hand, for all of her technique, I found some of the polychromy, especially in the faces, a little waxen. On the other, a work like Tree (2009), with its swimmer standing on a tree trunk in ...

yet he was equally preoccupied with how “colour acts on a psychophysiological level”, as he wrote in his 1930 essay “Architectural Polychromy”. What’s different about the approach today ...

Their far-ranging exchange touches on creative impulse and resisting elitism; polychromy and Pop culture; Plato’s cave and the iPhone; evolution and reality TV. View Koons’s work in “Like ...

Basso, Elena Carò, Federico and Abramitis, Dorothy H. 2023. Polychromy in Ancient Greek Sculpture: New Scientific Research on an Attic Funerary Stele at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Applied ...

Like with the previous two collections, Hedin looked towards Le Corbusier’s seminal 63-tone palette ‘Architectural Polychromy’ – which spans two colour series, created in 1931 and 1959 – for the ...

An Achaemenid God in Color. Heritage, Vol. 7, Issue. 1, p. 1. In this volume, Alexander Nagel investigates the use of polychromy in the art and architecture of ancient Iran. Focusing on Persepolis, he ...