The publication of “Chroma” represents an important shift by museums toward recognizing polychromy and its entanglement with ...

What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from art ...

Remember the last time you went to a museum or botanical garden? Were there marble sculptures scattered around the galleries or bronze statues as centerpieces for fountains? You could even think about ...

A number of scientific recreations will be displayed alongside pieces from the Met's collection. A recreation of the Met's Archaic-period Sphinx finial—which once crowned a grave stele in the Museum's ...

Two German archaeologists use science to recreate the lost colors of antiquity. Historians debate just how authentic their version of the past really is. Groundbreaking or garish? Reconstruction of a ...

In Ancient Greece in 530 BCE, visitors to the grave of a young boy and girl would have gazed toward the sky and seen a brightly painted sphinx perched atop the 13-foot marble stele that marked the ...

It is known that ancient Greek and Roman sculptures were colorfully finished, rather than the commonly seen white marble statues, as some still have traces of paint. However, if the colors of such ...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue: From Reuterswärd to Bunte Götter -- Introduction -- Part 1: Painting the Portrait Body -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Marble Portraits from the Room ...

Do we have a bias against colour in art? Matt Wilson explores prejudices that have built up over centuries – leading to what has been labelled 'chromophobia', the subject of a new exhibition at New ...