The so-called "monochromes" on marble are twelve paintings on marble slabs from the Roman age, mostly coming from Herculaneum, and are now preserved at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples and at the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna. These paintings were included in several publications. Despite that, they continued to raise many questions and there was a lack of studies focusing entirely on them. Furthermore, it had barely been clarified that, despite the name "monochromes", these works are completely polychrome. By combining the archaeological data and the information obtained from the non-invasive archaeometrical analysis, it was possible to achieve brand new results, which allowed for a better understanding of some aspects of these works, such as their iconography, the used pigments used and the clients’ choices.
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-4057-3631
Book Title
La policromia dei Monochromata
Book Subtitle
La ricerca del colore su dipinti su lastre di marmo di età romana
Authors
Sara Lenzi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
368
Publication Year
2016
Copyright Information
© 2016 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-363-6
ISBN Print
978-88-6453-362-9
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-363-6
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-263-6
Series Title
Premio Ricerca «Città di Firenze»
Series ISSN
2705-0289
Series E-ISSN
2705-0297