Further Reading

Abbe, Mark B. “Polychromy of Roman Marble Sculpture.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/... (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, https://hyperallergic.com/383776/why-we-need-to-start-seeing-the-classical-world-in-color/.

• 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, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/true-colors-17888/.

• 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." Musée d'Orsay. June-September 2018. https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/events/exhibitions/in-the-museums/exhibitions-in-the-musee-dorsay-more/article/en-couleurs-47134.html?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=649&cHash=b50985c3da.

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

Østergaard, 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, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture.

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

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