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Gods in Color or Gods in Colour (original title in German: Bunte Götter – Die Farbigkeit antiker Skulptur ("Painted gods – the polychromy of ancient sculpture") is a travelling exhibition of varying format and extent that has been shown in multiple cities worldwide. Its subject is ancient polychromy, i.e. the original, brightly painted, appearance of ancient sculpture and architecture.




Concept


The exhibition is based on the conclusions drawn from research on ancient polychromy, conducted especially by the Classical archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann since the early 1980s, based on earlier works by Volkmar von Graeve. Working together with Raimund Wünsche, the director of the Glyptothek at Munich, Brinkmann developed the concept for the exhibition, culminating in the original Munich show in 2003. It displayed copies of ancient sculpture in their reconstructed and painted appearance that had been produced during his studies, as well as new reconstructions created especially for the exhibition, in conjunction with the originals or comparable ancient sculptures. Soon, the exhibition began to travel to other cities in Germany and beyond.
Since 2007, the exhibition and underlying research has received support from a foundation created by the government of Bavaria, as well as private donations. After the original German catalogue produced for the 2003 Munich exhibition, new editions were issued for later showings, most recently for the 2020 one in Frankfurt. An English catalogue was published for the 2007–2008 showing in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University and more recently for the show in San Francisco (Legion of Honor (museum)). In 2007, the Colored Gods formed part of the exhibition Color of Life – Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present, at the Getty Villa in Los Angeles, with contributions in the respective catalogue.




Dates


So far, the exhibit has been shown in the following locations:

16 December 2003 – 29 February 2004: Glyptothek, Munich
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
Vatican Museums, Rome
11 August – 20 November 2005: Skulpturhalle, Basel
2 December 2005 – 26 March 2006: Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam
2006: Archaeological Museum, Istanbul
9 January – 24 March 2007: as Πολύχρωμοι Θεοί/Polychromoi Theoi, National Archaeological Museum, Athens
4 April – 1 July 2007: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
22 September 2007 – 20 January 2008: as Gods in Color. Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity, Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge (Massachusetts)
6 March – 23 June 2008: Part of exhibition Color of Life – Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present, Getty Villa, Los Angeles
8 October 2008 – 15 February 2009: Liebieghaus, Frankfurt am Main
6 March – 1 June 2009: Antikensammlung, Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel
18 December 2009 – 18 April 2010: Museo Arqueológico Regional de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid
13 July – 3 October 2010: Antikensammlung in the Pergamonmuseum, Berlin
9 October 2010 – 30 January 2011: as White Lies, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm
6 March – 31 July 2011: Georg-August-Universität, Archaeological Institute, Göttingen
29 October 2011 – 20 May 2012: Heidelberg University
28 June – 28 October 2012: Kunstsammlungen, Ruhr University Bochum
13 November 2012 – 17 March 2013: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
11 April 2014 – 10 August 2014: Museum of Tübingen University, Tübingen
22 January 2015 – 14 June 2015: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
11 October 2016 – 8 January 2017: Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
28 October 2017 – 7 January 2018: Legion of Honor (museum), San Francisco
30 January 2020 – 26 September 2021: Bunte Götter – Golden Edition, Liebieghaus, Frankfurt am Main
5 July 2022 – 23 March 2023: participation in Chroma. Ancient Sculpture in Color, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
October 2023 – June 2024: Gallo-Roman Museum, Tongeren, Belgium




Research and reconstruction objects (selection)


West and East pediment of Aphaea Temple on Aegina

Archer in Scythian garment (three variants)
Statue of Athena (two variants)
Head of a warrior (two variants)
Shield with boar as device
Shield with eagle and serpent
Sculpture from the Athenian Acropolis

Statue of the so-called Peplos Kore (three variants)
Cuirassed Torso (two variants)
So-called Chios Kore
So-called Persian Rider
Riace Bronzes
Sculpture from Attica

Grave Statue of Phrasikleia Kore
Grave Stele of Aristion (two variants)
Theseus and Antiope from Eretria (two variants)
Grave Stele of Paramythion (two variants)
Sculpture from Delos

So-called Small Herculaneum Woman
Statue of a Muse (five variants)
Other sculpture from Greece

Kouros of Tenea
Sphinx from Thasos
Bronzes from Quirinal (so-called Boxer at Rest and so-called Hellenistic Prince)
Sculpture from Pompeii

So-called Winckelmann-Artemis (three variants)
So-called Venus Lovatelli
Roman portraiture

Portrait of Emperor Caligula (three variants)
Elements from Greek Architecture

Antefix from the Temple of Aphaea
Ionic capital from the Athenian Agora




Catalogues


In German:

Vinzenz Brinkmann, Raimund Wünsche (eds.): Bunte Götter. Die Farbigkeit antiker Skulptur. Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich 2004. ISBN 3-933200-08-3. [Original catalogue]
Various editions coinciding with later showings
Vinzenz Brinkmann, Andreas Scholl (eds.): Bunte Götter. Die Farbigkeit antiker Skulptur. Hirmer, Munich, 2010. ISBN 978-3-7774-2781-2
Vinzenz Brinkmann, Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann (eds.): Bunte Götter – Golden Edition. Die Farbigkeit antiker Skulptur. Prestel, Munich 2020.
In English:

Vinzenz Brinkmann (ed.): Gods in Color – Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity, Biering & Brinkmann, Munich, 2007. ISBN 3-930609-54-1 [Coinciding with Harvard showing]
Roberta Panzanelli, Eike Schmidt, Kenneth Lapatin (eds.): The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2008. ISBN 0-892369-18-3 [Catalogue for the L.A. exhibition, including sections on the Gods in Color exhibit]
Vinzenz Brinkmann, Oliver Primavesi, Max Hollein: Circumlitio. The Polychromy of Antique and Medieval Sculpture. 2010.
Vinzenz Brinkmann, Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, Renée Dreyfus: Gods in Color – Polychromy in the Ancient World, Prestel, New York 2017.




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External links



Stiftung Archäologie/Bavarian Archaeology Foundation
Gods in colors – website on the exhibition

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