National Archaeological Museum of Athens: Gods In Color

On January 29, 2007, a new Exhibition was opened to the public at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. After having made the rounds at a variety of Museums in Europe, “Gods in Color” has been on view in Athens until March 25th. However, thanks to our Album, visitors to our website will be enjoying it permanently! The 21 casts exhibited (in Ground floor Galleries 44 and 45) are of well-known statues (Cuirassed torso of the statue of an archer or chariot driver from the Acropolis Museum, Akr 599, the bronze head of a victor from Glyptothek München, the “Peplos Kore” from the Acropolis of Athens Museum, Akr. 679, the Lion of Loutraki, etc), of Tombstone Stelae (tombstone of Aristion, the one of Paramythion, etc), of Pediment sculptures (from the Athena Afaea Temple in Aegina, the East Frieze of the Siphnian Treasury in Delphi, parts of the so called Sarcophagus of Alexander the Great) and specimens of real pigment used in antiquity. (Text and Photos: Michael Tziotis)

• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• Coloring and Pigments
• Prehistoric Art
• Colored Casts of Statues
• Funerary Stelae (Tombstones)
• Temple of Aphaea at Aegina - Colored Reconstruction of the West Pediment
• Temple of Aphaea at Aegina - Colored Reconstruction of a Warrior's Head from the East Pediment
• The Sarcophagus from Sidon, the So-Called Sarcophagus of Alexander the Great
• The Frieze of the Siphnian Treasury
• Original Statues with Traces of Color
• Six Figurines
• Calyx Crater
• White Ground Lekythoi

Six Figurines

Gods in Color: Six Figurines Window	Gods in Color: 1. Figurine of Aphrodite. Corinth, 4th century B.C. (no. 4162) White slip, blue and violet pigments
Gods in Color: 2. Eros riding on a dolphin. Unknown provenance. End of 3rd- beginning of 2nd century B.C. (no. 5892) White slip covers the entire surface. Lavish use of blue, grey, ochre, pinkish brown and red pigments.	Gods in Color: 3. Clay figurine of Victory (Nike), holding a sea-shell. Myrina. 150-130 B.C. (no. 5101) White, red, pink and blue pigments.
Gods in Color: 3. Clay figurine of Victory (Nike), holding a sea-shell. Myrina. 150-130 B.C. (no. 5101) White, red, pink and blue pigments.	Gods in Color: 3. Clay figurine of Victory (Nike), holding a sea-shell. Myrina. 150-130 B.C. (no. 5101) The elegance in her posture and movement made a third photograph almost obligatory!
Gods in Color: 4. Clay figurine of Aphrodite leaning on a dancer's statuette. Myrina. 2nd century B.C. (no. 4999) White slip and pink pigment.	Gods in Color: 5. Clay figurine of a youth holding a hare. Malessina. Boeotian workshop. 400-350 B.C. (no. 5678) White, red and blue pigments.
Gods in Color: 6. Clay figurine of a woman holding a box and taking out of it a fillet Tanagra. Boeotian workshop. Ca. 400 B.C. (no. 4501) White, red, yellow and blue pigments.

• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• Coloring and Pigments
• Prehistoric Art
• Colored Casts of Statues
• Funerary Stelae (Tombstones)
• Temple of Aphaea at Aegina - Colored Reconstruction of the West Pediment
• Temple of Aphaea at Aegina - Colored Reconstruction of a Warrior's Head from the East Pediment
• The Sarcophagus from Sidon, the So-Called Sarcophagus of Alexander the Great
• The Frieze of the Siphnian Treasury
• Original Statues with Traces of Color
• Six Figurines
• Calyx Crater
• White Ground Lekythoi