RT @chapps
Hey, folks - I'll be posting a thread about creating this reconstruction, but here's my essay (which should have had a major edit, I admit) that accompanies the reconstruction in the catalogue for the 'Who Are You, Apollo?' exhibition in Lillebonne. #polychromy https://twitter.com/antiquipop/status/1652600581054136323

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

Meet #Aphrodite Anadyomene, Aphrodite rising from the sea. The goddess is wringing out her beautiful hair that still has traces of #polychromy.

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekMythology #mythology #GreekRomanArt #polychromos #FannyFriday @antiquidons @histodons @mythology

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

Terracotta Statuette of #Aphrodite rising from the sea in a seashell. You can see remnants of #polychromy on the left shell!

Dated to ca. 3rd century BCE

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekMythology #mythology @mythology @antiquidons #ancientHistory #ancientGreece

More museums should be using projection technology (and other types of reconstructions) to show how ancient sculpture may have looked in antiquity. The museums, after all, bear a huge responsibility for the public's view that all sculpture was unpainted. #polychromy

RT @mdlett@twitter.com

The entrance to Basel Antiquities Collection’s exhibition “Naked! The art of nudity” is the Aphrodite of Knidos, in a room of mirrors and in projected polychromy.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mdlett/status/1062677041869398019

#HappyNewYear to everyone 🥂

I hope you welcomed the new year with as much joy as #Sol Invictus and Mithras are displaying in this polychrome reproduction of a Mithraic banquet scene featuring #Mithras and the #SolInvictus banqueting on the hide of the slaughtered bull 🥳
Sol is raising his drinking horn, large rays of light emerging from his head in the background.
Prosit!

#DayOfHelios #Helios #GreekRomanArt @Chapps @antiquidons @histodons #polychromy

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The #gravestone of a boy named Herakleides. After it was broken, one segment of the #stele was somehow protected from weathering - on it we can still see the painted lower half of the boy, with his little dog jumping up at him. 4th century BC, Museum of the Royal Tombs, Vergina

This is a really good example of how much we lose when #pigments fade (or are scrubbed) away. #polychromy

RT @JoanneDyer_BM@twitter.com

#PolychromyRoundTable News! - SAVE THE DATE - The 12th International Round Table on #Polychromy in Ancient Sculpture and Architecture will be held at the #GettyVilla in Los Angeles, the week of 18th November, 2024. More details to follow soon! https://polychromyroundtable.com/news-221212-savedateprt12.php

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JoanneDyer_BM/status/1602323188314169344

RT @chapps@twitter.com

Found under the floor of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, pieces of the original medieval rood screen - pigments pretty well intact. Remember, all of the original exterior sculptures of the cathedral would have been similarly painted, as well as the architecture. #polychromy https://twitter.com/helen_gittos/status/1600580075287625730

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/chapps/status/1601052078033362944

Found under the floor of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, pieces of the original medieval rood screen - pigments pretty well intact. Remember, all of the original exterior sculptures of the cathedral would have been similarly painted, as well as the architecture. #polychromy

RT @Helen_Gittos@twitter.com

I'm not quite sure how I'd missed this! The surviving paint is sensational. 3/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/14/ancient-tombs-statues-notre-dame-cathedral-archaeological-dig

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Helen_Gittos/status/1600580075287625730

This is a really good example of how much we lose when pigments fade (or are scrubbed) away. Note that the broken grave stele below somehow preserved the painting on one piece. Well detailed, and you can even see the boy's dog. The other painted parts have faded. #polychromy

Thanks to @colm_meaden@twitter.com to tagging me on this post. Note the remains of red on the Medieval rood screen, and purple on the tunic of the human figure. I hope these go into the Cluny, which already has other pieces of old Notre Dame. #polychromy

A *fantastic* thread by @ab_foglia@twitter.com about the uneven (and, ultimately, disappointing) rendering of ancient architectural #polychromy in games like AC Odyssey. Don't even get me started on the uneven and odd polychromy on the statues.

Of course, I'm always thrilled to see little remnants of #polychromy, and here you can see traces of once-vibrant red pigment in the letters. I also have to wonder if anything was written on the tag (usually seen with a bust) below the figure of Fortunatus, now lost. 🤷‍♂️ 5/

An extremely large 2,300-year-old funerary building and a large cache of mummies - and mummy portraits - has been discovered in the Fayum province of #Egypt. It apparently covers the Ptolemaic and Roman eras. I love the tempera portrait, below. Very sweet. #polychromy

Today is the 2,012th birthday of the beautiful Bythinian lover of the emperor Hadrian, #Antinous. Here, he appears as a priest of Attis, lover of Cybele (found in the sanctuary of Cybele/Magna Mater).

Also, visible remnants of red pigment in the hair. #polychromy

Lekythos figurine in the form of Aphrodite in a shell. The almost airbrushed technique in the pinks is remarkable.

4th c. BCE. From the necropolis of Phanagoria, a Greek colony on the Taman peninsula, between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. #polychromy

Hermitage Museum

This Etruscan roof tile is late 6th c. BCE, and can be seen at the #MetMuseum in NYC (1997.145.2a). #polychromy #archaeology 2/end

These small-scale sculptural forms - usually painted terracotta - are probably pretty good guides as to how larger sculptures were painted. Note the sfumato technique used on the blush of the cheeks, and the delicate palmettes and scrolls below the sphinx. #polychromy

A great example of metallic #polychromy. Note the copper (and silver?) eyes and copper lips on this bronze Apollo.

RT @rubsmontoya@twitter.com

#Pompeii never disappoints 🏛🏺🌋🥰

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/rubsmontoya/status/1594720899827212288

It's rare to find traces of skin pigments on any kind of sculpture, as they've long since degraded. But the kind of volcanic stone here may have helped to preserve it. The pink could be rose madder or lead white mixed with red ocher. Other possibilities, though. #polychromy