Colour in sculpture : a survey from ancient Mesopotamia to the present /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hägele, Hannelore
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Ancient Mesopotamia : materials and places
  • Ch. 2. Ancient Egypt : the magnitude of things
  • Ch. 3. Greek sculpture : once bright and shiny
  • Ch. 4. Etruria and Rome : cults colour coding
  • Ch. 5. Late antiquity to early Medieval : piecing together the cultural relevance
  • Ch. 6. The crafted glory of late Medieval sculpture
  • Ch. 7. Early colour symbolism and colour theories
  • Ch. 8. Renaissance and Reformation : painterly finishes on the wane
  • Ch. 9. Baroque and Rococo : white sculptures amidst a blaze of colour
  • Ch. 10. Neoclassicism : what happened to polychromy?
  • Ch. 11. A modern reading of colour in sculpture.