From akriman@darwin.helios.nd.edu Mon Dec 18 13:37:14 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id NAA82272 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 13:37:13 -0800 Received: from mailspool.helios.nd.edu (mailspool.helios.nd.edu [129.74.250.7]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id NAA13055 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 13:37:12 -0800 Received: from darwin.helios.nd.edu (darwin.helios.nd.edu [129.74.250.114]) by mailspool.helios.nd.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA09159 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 16:37:09 -0500 (EST) Received: (from akriman@localhost) by darwin.helios.nd.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1/ND-cluster) id eBILbAO05947 for classics@u.washington.edu; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 16:37:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 16:37:10 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred M Kriman Message-Id: <200012182137.eBILbAO05947@darwin.helios.nd.edu> To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Colour scheme of Parthenon Ralph Hancock wrote: > 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. Related questions raised by Janice Siegel last March [[1]] elicited answers from David Lupher and Owen Cramer that might be helpful [[2,3]]. A quick dip in the archives suggests general agreement that the most frequently cited examples of remaining paint are in the Acropolis Museum. The paint issue came up in one of the Elgin marble threads (this one in mid-November 1999). JS has [[4]] > ...a picture of a painted piece of Parthenon(in the BM) > on my site: http://nimbus.temple.edu/~jsiegel/sites/acropolis/acropolis.htm (See , which includes side-by-side pictures of British Museum reconstruction and unretouched frieze fragment.) She has > ... a bunch more photos of painted sculpture not yet uploaded. Patrick Rourke also has a photo of a capital with the original paint from the BM. We could have quite a virtual gallery here. Alison Barker wrote > Eric Case and Judith de Luce have produced a Virtual Sculpture Gallery, > where you can see their images of Greek sculpture with paint "restored." > > http://eekman.com/virtual_gallery/ See also [[5,6]] Gregory Crane noted in 1993 that > ... the Toronto restorations of the parthenon (with lots > of very bright paint) were at Perseus. (No URL -- sorry, today I'm only doing archives.) In 1997, in a different context, Sellers C. Lawrence recommended > Evelyn B. Harrison, "The South Frieze of the Nike Temple and the Marathon > Painting in the Painted Stoa," AJA 76(1972), pp. 353-378. [[1]] Janice Siegel gopher://140.142.56.13/0R66498-71433-/public/classics/classics.log200003a [[2]] David Lupher gopher://140.142.56.13/0R66498-71433-/public/classics/classics.log200003a [[3]] Owen Cramer gopher://140.142.56.13/0R81826-83685-/public/classics/classics.log200003a [[4]] Janice Siegel gopher://140.142.56.13/0R394588-396855-/public/classics/classics.log9911b [[5]] Judith Sebesta, who seemed in doubt as to the quality of research behind the 19c. French artists' work now recalled by John McMahon. gopher://140.142.56.13/0R387746-390079-/public/classics/classics.log9911b [[6]] Diana Wright gopher://140.142.56.13/0R391671-394588-/public/classics/classics.log9911b .