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Exhibition Review
Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color
03/2023 | 1440 | 165
Pages: 312-315
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Reviewer:
Rumora, Roko (Rumora, Roko)
Subjects
artists:
Brinkmann, Vinzenz / Koch-Brinkmann, Ulrike
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
subjects:
Greek (ancient) School / Roman (ancient) School / Sculpture / Polychromy / Reconstructions / Pigments / Statues
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 5th July 2022–26th March 2023 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Reconstruction of the so-called ‘Cuirass-Torso’ from the Athenian Acropolis, Variant B, by Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch- Brinkmann. 2005. Plaster cast, natural pigments in egg tempera and gold foil, 60 by 44 by 25 cm. (Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
8. Reconstruction of a marble finial in the form of a sphinx, by Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch- Brinkmann. 2022. Cast from polymethyl metacrylate, natural pigments in egg tempera, gold foil and copper, 85 by 28 by 57 cm. (Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
9. Installation view of Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023, showing the reconstruction of the funerary stele of Phrasikleia, by Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch- Brinkmann. 2010, updated 2019. Polymethyl metacrylate, 200 by 68 by 69 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Western art unattributed:
7. Marble finial in the form of a sphinx. Archaic Greek, c.530 BC. Marble, height (with akroterion) 142.6 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Exhibition Review
Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 774-776
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Reviewer:
Cooney, Kathlyn M. (Cooney, Kathlyn M.)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Sculpture / Musical instruments / Silverwork / Documents / Stone / Marbles
museums and institutions:
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States
patrons:
Amasis II, King of Egypt / Amenhotep III, King of Egypt / Alexander the Great
places:
United States / Los Angeles
subjects:
Egyptian sculpture / Greek (ancient) sculpture / Roman (ancient) sculpture / Egyptian School / Greek (ancient) School / Roman (ancient) School / Patronage / Politics / Influence / Diplomacy / Collecting / Monarchy / Emperors / Kings / Greek iconography / Roman iconography / Gods / Goddesses / Sarcophagi / Hieroglyphics / Scrolls (Rolls) / Jugs / Cups / Busts / Portraits / Caesar, Lucius Julius, 90-43 B.C. / Caracalla / Naturalism
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
5. Sarcophagus of Wahibreemakhet, Egyptian. c.600 BC. Basalt, 230 by 94 by 105 cm. (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden; exh. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
Western art unattributed:
6. Julius Caesar, Roman. First century BC–First century AD. Graywacke, 44 by 26 by 25 cm. (Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; exh. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
Western art unattributed:
7. Head of Caracalla, Romano-Egyptian. AD 211–17. Granite, 51 by 34 by 52 cm. (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia; exh. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
Book Review
Herculaneum Past and Present
03/2012 | 1308 | 154
Pages: 203
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Reviewer:
Cormack, Robin (Cormack, Robin)
Subjects
places:
Herculaneum / Italy
print:
Herculaneum
subjects:
Conservation / Archaeology / Roman history / Roman (ancient) School / Roman (ancient) architecture / Roman (ancient) sculpture / Roman (ancient) painting / Excavations
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Herculaneum Past and Present | author: Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
30. Head of a statue of an Amazon. From Herculaneum, before 79 AD. Painted marble.
Book Review
Spatantike Kaiserportrats von Constantinus Magnus bis zum Ende des Westreichs
03/1935 | 384 | 66
Pages: 143-144
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Reviewer:
Strong, Eugénie (Strong, Eugénie; Sellers, Eugénie; Strong, E.)
Subjects
places:
Rome (historical region)
subjects:
Roman (ancient) sculpture / Roman (ancient) / Roman (ancient) School / Portraits / Emperors
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Spatantike Kaiserportrats von Constantinus Magnus bis zum Ende des Westreichs | author: Delbrueck, Richard