Further Reading


Abbe, Mark B. 鈥淧olychromy of Roman Marble Sculpture.鈥� In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. (April 2007)

  • An introduction to the practice and rediscovery of polychromy.

Bond, Sarah. Why We Need to Start Seeing the Classical World In Color. Hyperallergic. June 17th, 2017, .

  • An essay about relationship between race and the perpetuation of the lack of color in classical art.

Gurewitsch, Matthew. True Colors. Smithsonian Magazine, July 2008, .

  • A discussion of Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann's Gods in Color exhibition's response to polychromy.

"In Colour: Polychrome Sculpture in France 1850-1910." Mus茅e d'Orsay. June-September 2018. .

  • Digital exhibition page for Mus茅e d'Orsay's examination of artists and works inspired by polychromy.

脴stergaard, Jan Stubbe. "Polychromy, Sculptural, Greek and Roman." Oxford Classical Dictionary. 26 Feb. 2018. https://oxfordre.com/classics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-8118.

  • An in-depth look at the methods of polychromy in the ancient world and its rediscovery and current research.

Panzanelli, Roberta. 2008. The color of life. Los Angeles, CAlif: J. Paul Getty Museum.

  • Exhibition catalog containing essays on polychromy in Ancient, Middle Ages, Modern, and Contemporary art.

Talbot, Margaret. The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture. The New Yorker, October 22nd, 2018, .

  • Article that examines the origins and perpetuation of the narrative of colorless classicism and its damaging afterlives.