Resources
- Color Quiz
- Color Map
- Kelsey Museum videos
- Kelsey Museum coloring book (PDF)
- Further online resources:
- Bibliography
- Image credits
Silent Videos
- Examination of Bacchus Head (silent video)
- Examination of Fayum Portrait (silent video)
Creating Color
- “A Pigment Library That Launched American Art Conservation,” by Allison Meier, in Hyperallergic (blog)
- Video: “Coloring the Past: An Interview with Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann”
- ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
- “Pigments Through the Ages,” a web exhibit curated by Michael Douma
- “In Ancient Rome, Purple Dye Was Made from Snails,” by Colin Schultz, Smithsonian.com, including a video on making Tyrian purple
- “The Hidden Labor Behind the Luxurious Colors of Purple and Indigo,” by Sarah E. Bond, in Hyperallergic (blog)
- “The Geography of Colorants,” online exhibit, University of Michigan Library
Using Color
- Gods in Color, exhibition website
- Colors of Classical Art, exhibition website
Issue of White Antiquity
- “Why We Need to Start Seeing the Classical World in Color,” by Sarah E. Bond, in Hyperallergic (blog)
- “Whitewashing Ancient Statues: Whiteness, Racism and Color in the Ancient World,” by Sarah Bond, Forbes.com
- Various posts in History from Below, Sarah Bond’s blog on the Roman world and color
- “The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture,” by Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker
- “Pygmalion, Polychromy, and Inclusiveness in Classics,” by Aimee Hinds, in the Society for Classical Studies’ blog
Investigating Color
- Tracking Colour website (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek)
- Ancient Polychromy Network (University of Georgia)
- “A Young Man’s Mummy Offers Clues to Cultural Exchange and Technology in Roman-Ruled Egypt,” by Marie Svoboda, in The Iris (blog)
- Post about pigments from Pompeii on the Facebook page of Pompeii - Parco Archaeologico
- Roman Egyptian Mummy Portraits (Project of the Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts, Northwestern University)
- “A Complete View and a Complete Treatment: Conservation of the Roman Period Mummy Mask,” by Amaris Sturm, in The Artifact Lab: Conservation in Action (Penn Museum's blog)
- Video: “Roman Sculpture and Colour: The ‘Treu Head’ (Ancient Greek and Roman Color / Polychromy)”
- Video: “Synthesizing a Pigment: Egyptian Blue” (Dr. Gregory Smith at the Indianapolis Museum of Art)
- “Imaging Tool Unravels Secrets of Child’s Sock from Ancient Egypt,” by Caroline Davis, The Guardian (US edition)