Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Statues in the Eyes of Ancients
I09 recently picked up on reports from Harvard University that German ultraviolet light scans of ancient Greek statues have revealed their true colours.
Harvard: "The reconstructions are the result of more than two decades of painstaking research by a pair of married German archaeologists, Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann. The exhibition was organized by the Stiftung Archäologie and the Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek of Munich, Germany, and has already been shown in a number of European cities. The Sackler is its first U.S. venue."
More on this at Colour Lovers and The Smithsonian. Photos from Stiftung Archäologie. A list of related projects is here and exhibitions here. An article on the Brinkmanns and their work is here at Beyond Criticism.
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