PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Pokorná, Barbara
TI  - Reinventing Colour in Antique Sculpture
DP  - 2016 Jun 11
TA  - Historica Olomucensia
PG  - 49--68
VI  - 50
IP  - 1
AID - 10.5507/ho.2016.003
IS  - 18039561
AB  - At the beginning of the 19th century, scholars were fascinated by new discoveries of Antique marble statues of Greek and Roman origin with traces of original painting, however, in the 20th century the interest in this topic disappeared from incomprehensible reasons. Only in last few decades, the study of 'colour' Antiquity has returned to the attention of European researchers who use modern methods and technologies for examining colour pigments preserved on a surface of Antique marble and bronze. These researches prove that Greek and Roman statues were richly decorated by colours and disprove the rooted myth of puristic aesthetics of Ancient art.