Greek, south Italy, third century BC
Terracotta with kaolin and traces of polychromy
Height: 10 1/4 in. (26 cm)
Liebieghaus Sculpture Collection, Frankfurt
Eros, the boyish Greek god of love, has wings in order to attend quickly to lovers with his powers.
The statue has abundant remnants of Egyptian blue on its wings and traces of pink pain (madder lake) on its cloak.
Greek, second-first century BC
Terracotta with traces of polychromy
Height: 10 1/4 in (26 cm)
Liebieghaus Sculpture Collection, Frankfurt
The young woman wears an ivy wreath in her hair and a pelt over her right shoulder, placed there by a bacchante.
The colors of this small clay sculpture are very well preserved and correspond to those of larger marble sculptures. Her garments were painted white, bright blue, and pink. The pelt was originally a bright yellow. Perhaps surprisingly, the leaves of the wreath are painted blue.
Greek, south Italy, third or second century BC
Terracotta with kaolin and traces of polychromy
Height: 12 5/8 in. (32 cm)
Liebieghaus Sculpture Collection, Frankfurt
This clay sculpture from the Hellenistic period (330-30 BC) gives a good sense of complete polychromy on an ancient Greek sculpture. Large areas of the garment are painted with the colors fashionable at the time: the pink fabric is framed with a slender white border and a broad grayish-blue one. There are traces of bright Egyptuan blue on the right sleeve of her chiton,or undergarment. Her skin is painted in a dark shade of apricot.
from the catalog Gods in Color: Polychromy in the Ancient World, pp. 144-5
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