Recently, some museums started seeing in a new light their collections and searching for overlooked traces of painted colours: one example is the National Archaeological Museum of Aquileia, in north-eastern Italy, a Roman city close to the Adriatic Sea. Among the sculptures with an easily recognizable polychromy, five were chosen (three statues, a funerary relief and a fragment of architectural decoration), in order to give new and unpublished information about the colours on marble and stone of the Roman Aquileia between the 1st century BC and the 3rd century CE, with the support of a multi-analytical approach (imaging, FORS, Raman and microsamples).
Lenzi, S., Novello, M., Salvadori, M., Angelini, I., Zoleo, A., Deiana, R., Traces of polychromies in Roman sculpture: a multi-analytical approach, in Proceedings 2023 IMEKO TC-4 International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Rome, Italy, October 19-21, 2023, (Roma, Università Roma Tre, 19-21 October 2023), Athena Consulting, Rome 2023: 132-136 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/272100]
Traces of polychromies in Roman sculpture: a multi-analytical approach
Lenzi, Sara
;Novello, Marta;
2023
Abstract
Recently, some museums started seeing in a new light their collections and searching for overlooked traces of painted colours: one example is the National Archaeological Museum of Aquileia, in north-eastern Italy, a Roman city close to the Adriatic Sea. Among the sculptures with an easily recognizable polychromy, five were chosen (three statues, a funerary relief and a fragment of architectural decoration), in order to give new and unpublished information about the colours on marble and stone of the Roman Aquileia between the 1st century BC and the 3rd century CE, with the support of a multi-analytical approach (imaging, FORS, Raman and microsamples).
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