From hancock@dircon.co.uk Mon Dec 18 09:59:44 2000 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id JAA368048 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 09:59:43 -0800 Received: from mailhost1.dircon.co.uk (mailhost1.dircon.co.uk [194.112.32.65]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id JAA26448 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 09:59:42 -0800 Received: from main (th-en138-226.pool.dircon.co.uk [194.112.55.226]) by mailhost1.dircon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA80799 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 17:59:40 GMT Message-ID: <004501c0691c$59ea4520$e23770c2@main> From: "Ralph Hancock" To: References: Subject: Colour scheme of Parthenon Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 17:53:11 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Many years ago, in a 19th century book, I saw an engraving of the original, and very gaudy, colour scheme of the Parthenon, re-created from fragments of surviving paint found on the stonework. Does anyone know of such a picture, and also if it can be viewed on a web site anywhere? All I have managed to find by searching is a black-and-white picture of a painted antefix. As part of the renovation of the British Museum, the inside of the columned entrance hall has been repainted in its original colours, which I think are a copy of the *interior* paintwork of some other notable temple (the building has a Greek Ionic order). But of course not the exterior, which would really frighten the horses. Ralph Hancock hancock@dircon.co.uk www.users.dircon.co.uk/~hancock/antioch.htm .