11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Columbia University, Schermerhorn 807 & on Zoom.
Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ancient Greek and Roman sculpture was once colorful, vibrantly painted and richly adorned with detailed ornamentation. Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color reveals the colorful backstory of polychromy—meaning “many colors,” in Greek—and presents new discoveries of surviving ancient color on artworks in The Met’s world-class collection.
The presentation will discuss the Chroma exhibition, which features a series of reconstructions of ancient sculptures in color by Prof. Dr. V. Brinkmann, Head of the Department of Antiquity at the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, and Dr. U. Koch-Brinkmann, and highlights sixty works of art in The Met’s permanent collection. Exploring the practices and materials used in ancient polychromy, the exhibition underscores the methods used to identify ancient color and examines how color helped convey meaning in antiquity, and how ancient polychromy has been viewed and understood in later periods.
The exhibition opened in July 2022 and will run through March 26, 2023. https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2022/chroma
To join the talk on Zoom please register using this link: https://forms.gle/iPv8ozBWLDv3RtdE8
