{"id":16239,"date":"2024-03-28T21:29:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T19:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/oudheid-krijgt-kleur-in-gallo-romeins-museum\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T17:37:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:37:32","slug":"oudheid-krijgt-kleur-in-gallo-romeins-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/oudheid-krijgt-kleur-in-gallo-romeins-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Antiquity Comes to Life in Colour at the Gallo-Roman Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":{"categorie":33,"afbeelding":10885,"auteur":"Harry Lindelauf","fotografie":"Gallo-Romeins Museum Tongeren","contentbuilder":[{"acf_fc_layout":"tekst","tekst":"

We\u2019ve always thought we knew for sure: ancient Greek and Roman sculptures have the colour of the stone or bronze from which they were made. But a new exhibition at the Gallo-Roman Museum in Tongeren overturns that certainty. The pale faces regain their colour \u2014 in fact, vividly so.<\/h3>\r\nPhoto: Head of a Roman statue of a goddess with colour reconstructions. On the original sculpture, many traces of paint are still visible: pink on the skin, black around the eyes, and yellow in the hair. The goddess wore a headdress made of another material, probably metal. This has not survived, but it explains why the sculptor left the crown of the head unfinished."},{"acf_fc_layout":"foto_tekst","foto":10888,"tekst":"Tongeren offers visitors a remarkable experience: dozens of life-size, colourful reconstructions are brought together here.\r\nYou can see the sculptures as we know them today \u2014 depictions of gods, emperors, warriors, and mythological figures \u2014 and also the work of Prof. Vinzenz Brinkmann, curator of Classical Antiquities at the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung in Frankfurt am Main.\u00a0 He researches the polychromy of ancient sculpture and, together with his wife, Dr. Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, creates scientifically accurate, life-sized reconstructions. In a film, the researchers explain the analytical techniques they use and show how the reconstructions are made. Brinkmann\u2019s research begins with traces of paint found on authentic sculptures.\u00a0 Several ancient Greek and Roman statues on display in Tongeren still show original colour residues.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Reconstruction of a statue of an archer from the pediment of a temple dedicated to the goddess Aphaia (Aegina, Greece, c. 480 BC)."},{"acf_fc_layout":"tekst_foto","tekst":"

The House of Delos<\/h3>\r\nOne of the highlights of the exhibition is a video installation featuring a luxury house on the Greek island of Delos, dating from the first century BC. It includes a life-size reconstruction of a statue of a young woman, possibly the lady of the house. As in antiquity, it is painted in pastel shades \u2014 a pink dress and a translucent light-green shawl.\r\n

Educational and Fun for Young Visitors<\/h3>\r\nInteractive computer games show children aged 7\u201312 how ancient sculptures were made. On Sundays and during school holidays, there is a creative workshop where young visitors, inspired by the colours of the reconstructions, can create and paint their own designs on a marble tablet. Their artwork can be taken home as a souvenir.","foto":10882},{"acf_fc_layout":"tekst","tekst":"

Even Bronze Statues Were Painted<\/h3>\r\nIn ancient Greece and Rome, many statues were not carved in marble but cast in bronze \u2014 and these too were painted. The exhibition features four reconstructions of famous bronze sculptures: two Greek warriors from around 450 BC (found in Riace, Italy), and the pair known as \u201cThe Boxer and the Prince.\u201d\u00a0 These two were discovered together on the southern slope of Rome\u2019s Quirinal Hill.\r\n\r\nGallo-Roman Museum Tongeren<\/a>, \u201cAntiquity in Colour\u201d \u2014 on view until 2 June 2024."}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16249,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16239\/revisions\/16249"}],"acf:term":[{"embeddable":true,"taxonomy":"category","href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}