Preliminary Report 3, 2011 - Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Jan Stubbe Østergaard
‘Tracking Colour’ in 2011
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Fig. 1: The
Dionysiac
(‘Casali’) sarcophagus
IN 843. The
wedding of
Dionysos and
Ariadne. H. 99
cm., l. 222 cm.
C. 190 CE.
Mapping
of pigment
remains on
the front.
Fig. 2: As fig. 1.
Detail of the
maenad on
the viewer’s
left: Egyptian
blue in the
berries of her
ivy wreath.
Fig. 3: As fig. 1.
Micrograph of
the left hand
of Ariadne,
with remains
of the skin
colour.
tracking colour – The polychromy of Greek and Roman sculpture in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Preliminary Report 3, 2011 – the copenhagen polychromy network