The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present by Alex Potts, Kenneth Lapatin, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Eike Schmidt, Jan Stubbe Ostergaard, Roberta Pazanelli, Marco Collareta

The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present

Alex Potts, Kenneth Lapatin, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Eike Schmidt, Jan Stubbe Ostergaard, Roberta Pazanelli, Marco Collareta

256 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

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Ever since antiquity, sculptors have used colored materials and tints to give a lifelike quality to three-dimensional portraits and statues, yet the term “sculpture” tends to evoke images of white marble. This is the first comprehensive study to e...

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