Discuss the element of color and its relationship to Greek sculpture. Why is the consideration of color important?
What will be an ideal response?
Essay responses should include these points:
Modern viewers are used to seeing the stone sculpture as stark white.
Greek sculpture was originally painted with brilliant colors and, with scientific analysis, we can re-image the original state.
Scholars have replaced features, such as ringlet hair extensions, a bow, a quiver, and arrows, which were probably made of bronze.
Diamond-shaped patterns were originally painted on leggings and sleeves, using pigments derived from malachite, azurite, arsenic, cinnabar, and charcoal.
Figures were painted to make them more lifelike.
You might also like to view...
Two factors that decide the success of any structural system are:
A. weight and tensile strength. B. the placement of its dome and its pendentives. C. the linear ratio of foundation to wall and wall to roof. D. the tension and compression of each buttress. E. None of these answers are correct.
In which of the following lines from his Adages does Erasmus seem to chide Henry VIII for being overly materialistic?
a. “What could be more idiotic than to be up in arms so childishly for the sake of a chit from a barbarous land?” b. “How childishly he goes crying to his mother!” c. “Hesiod . . . calls princes ‘gift-greedy.’” d. “Plato wrote that the only way for the state to attain happiness was for the supreme command to be given to philosophers.”