"Re-presenting in Colours at the ‘Palace of Nestor’: Original Polychromy and Painting Materials"
Hariclia Brecoulaki, Andreas G. Karydas, Vassilis Perdikatsis and Maria P. Colombini
in J. Bennet (ed.),Representations. Material and Immaterial Modes of Communication in the Bronze Age Aegean, Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology, Oxford, Oxbow Books, 2021, 53-106.
in D. Wharton (ed.), A Cultural History of Color in Antiquity, (A Cultural History of Color, vols. 1-6, edited by C. P. Biggam and K. Wolf). London: Bloomsbury Press. 2021. 135-154 and 155-176.
"The Painted Tetrarchic Reliefs of Nicomedia: Uncovering the Colourful Life of Diocletian’s Forgotten Capital"
Tuna Şare Ağtürk
Published by Brepols.
The book presents the very first discussion of an astonishing group of painted Roman reliefs discovered from an imperial complex, at the centre of Diocletian’s empire at Nicomedia.
"Les couleurs des albâtres anglais. Polychromie, production et perception médiévales"
Markus Schlicht, Aurélie Mounier, Maud Mulliez,in collaboration with Pascal Mora and Romain Pacanowski.
Published by Ausonius editions.
The bookdetails the work of a multidisciplinary team on the analysis and reconstruction of the polychromy of several English alabaster panels preserved in the Bordeaux region, andis available online.
Download a free PDF copy of the book here and a short video summaryhere.
Published - 08/11/2021.
"The Nature of Art: Pliny the Elder on Materials"
Andreas Grüner, Anna Anguissola (eds.)
Published by Brepols.
This volume of collected essays addresses the presentation of artistic processes and their materials in the Natural History and focuses on the issues that lie at the root of Pliny's work: his account of the technological, economical, ideological, and aesthetic aspects of materials.
