Color in classical sculpture : a challenge to Western ideals [videorecording] / [lecture by] Jan Stubbe Østergaard ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Color in classical sculpture : a challenge to Western ideals [videorecording] / [lecture by] Jan Stubbe Østergaard ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Lecturer Jan Stubbe Østergaard, curator of ancient art at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, surveys our knowledge of ancient sculptural polychromy and discusses its repercussions. The misconception that ancient Greek and Roman statuary was conceived in white marble remains pervasive. This has influenced not only our understanding of sculpture in antiquity but also the aesthetic ideals of later Western art and architecture. Østergaard uses interdisciplinary research to demonstrate that color was inherent to ancient statuary.

1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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