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PolyCRomA · Polychromy: the meaning of Colour in Roman African statues

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2020-09-01 → 2022-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 178 320 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Цветовете по римските статуи в музея „Бардо“ в Тунис се анализират чрез физикохимични методи и виртуална реконструкция. Това помага да се разбере оригиналният вид на скулптурите и културното значение на цветовете в Римската империя.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

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Polychromy: the meaning of Colour in Roman African statues

Colour is the first object of sight according to ancient thought, thanks to which objects take shape. However, its importance in archaeological works has been underestimated until the 20thcentury, with a consequent progressive loss of colour due to the effects of time, negligence or voluntary removal. There is therefore urgent need to document the surviving traces of colour, to apprehend the works in their original aspect and to grasp the cultural meaning of colour. The study of sculpture polychromies, documenting lost colours by means of a physico-chemical protocol followed by their virtual reconstruction, are an excellent field in which to achieve this aim. However, such studies have not been systematic and remain sporadic, devoted to individual - often exceptional - works of art, or heterogeneous collections. In particular, studies relating to the Roman Imperial period (1st c. BCE-5th c.CE) are even scarcer and almost inexistent for the Western provinces. Proconsular Africa is an ideal territory for investigation of this topic because of the wealth of sculpture, which testifies to the diffusion of Roman culture almost from the 1st CE; because of the abundance of epigraphic and literary sources, as well as representations of the statues in mosaics and paintings, which provide elements for comparison; because Early Christian authors from this geographical territory promoted a theological reflection on statues, in which colour played a role. The aim of the PolyCRomA project is to investigate on a large scale the meaning of Roman Imperial statue polychromy, studying the collection of the Bardo Museum (Tunis). This collection offers a representative sample because it includes important statues from archaeological Tunisian sites, and many statues - either produced by local workshops or imported from Italian, micro-Asiatic and Greek workshops - on which the colour has been preserved. This offers the possibility of reconstructing the role of colours in the sculptural landscape of this important Western province. The main objectives are: 1. to document the material traces of colour on sculptures through a physico-chemical analytical protocol (in situ: MSI imaging, video-microscopy, MA-XRF, Raman; on micro-samples: cross section, TOF-SIMS) 2. to interpret the meaning of the colours detected by means of the textual and iconographic sources

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Long neglected, the polychromy of ancient statues has been increasingly studied during the last 20 years with a multidisciplinary cooperation between humanities and natural sciences. If the use of colour seems omnipresent in Greek statues with an illusionistic aim, the phenomenon is not only understudied in Roman statues but also more ambiguous: the fashion for copying Greek statues seems to develop the taste for marble and the socio-political value of the statues could be reflected in the use of colour.This action explores the meaning of Roman Imperial statues polychromy in Proconsular Africa though the Bardo museum collection in Tunisia, proposing the first systematic study of the use of colour in the statuary of an important Imperial province. The variety of typology, quality and provenance (local, Asia Minor, Rome workshops) of the more than 100 coloured statues in the corpus offers a significant mirror of the African society. Moreover, as the archaeological context ofdiscovery is well known, the meaning of the polychromy will be analysed in relation with the socio-political and religious purpose with which these artefacts were conceived.The preserved traces of colour will first be documented by coupling visual investigation (by the support of multispectral imaging and UV and VIL videomicroscope) and in-situ analyses (XRF and µRaman) in order to identify the techniques used to colour the statues. Selected micro-samples will undergo further quantitative analyses (PIXE, SEM/EDX, hyperspectral imaging, FT-IR). Finally literary and epigraphic sources of Proconsular Africa mentioning the colour of statues will be inventoried and the use of colour on the statues will be compared with their counterparts in painting and mosaic.The overall evaluation of the data will go beyond the scope of the province and will reach wider conclusions on the variations in the use of colour and its meaning, contributing to the history of colour and the modern perception of Roman art.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE · LIEGEКоординаторБелгия