The role of the stone in the polychrome treatment of Hellenistic sculptures
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C. Blume [1]
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[1] University of Göttingen
University of Göttingen
Landkreis Göttingen, Alemania
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- Localización: Interdisciplinary studies on ancient stone: proceedings of the IX Association for the Study of Marbles and Other Stones in Antiquity (ASMOSIA) Conference (Tarragona 2009) / coord. por Anna Gutiérrez García-Moreno, María Pilar Lapuente Mercadal, Isabel Rodà de Llanza, 2012, ISBN 978-84-939033-8-1, págs. 754-762
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Research on the polychromy of Hellenistic sculptures has raised the question about the role of the marble. On the one hand, expensive types of stone were chosen, but on the other, we find more and more examples where their surface seems to have been completely coated with colours. This article focuses on two possible functions of the stone with regard to the polychrome appearance of sculptures. The first function is when the stone serves as a painting ground and has particular characteristics to make the colours come out well. The second function might have been that the stone itself served as part of the overall polychrome scheme of a statue by being left unpainted and thus visible. There seems to be evidence for the latter, but it still needs to be discussed as well as verified by means of future studies on sculptures.
