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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).

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