Bringing the Color Back to Ancient Greece

The Greeks are serious about their beauty. After all, this is a beauty contest that caused Trojan War. Athena, Hera, Aphrodite compete in Paris and decide who is the most equitable. After Aphrodite promised him the love of the most beautiful human woman, Paris brought Helen to Troy. In this way the real mother of all wars began

As a goddess of love, beauty, and sexual pleasure Aphrodite inspired worship and challenged artists to present her a grand and magnificent shape. We inherited her image as an ideal bare carved white marble immortalized by works of Knidos and Venus Milo of Aphrodite of Praxiteles.

Modern scholars believe this image is wrong. Ancient sculptors were very interested in color and shape; the white marble statue we admire looked very different in ancient times. They are drawn in a palette that shows a complex understanding of colors and shadows

In order to explain how marble Aphrodite looks like to ancient people, we told Vietz Brinkman, a German archaeologist who pioneered color restoration technology, an optical that has never been published in the first century We asked to create mechanical mechanical restoration. . It was excavated from ruins of the villa in Pompeii. Unlike most ancient statues, this was a tremendous start for Brinkman as the vast amount of evidence from the original paint survived. "We analyzed non-invasive methods for traces of dark pigments, such as ultraviolet-visible absorption spectroscopy," he explained. "Based on physical and chemical measurements, what we do is absolutely faithful."

Blinkman suffered a synergistic effect between shape and color in imitating the separation of the goddess. "The audience waits for the next second, and her nakedness is displayed.The sculptor explains clearly that it will slide - and strengthens this story by giving the edge" color "

Mr. Brinkman said that Roveti Venus is probably one of the first examples of collecting private art. This job brings a decorative boom to the new family.

Harvard art historian Susanne Ebbinghaus stated that the combination of color and shape has a deeper meaning for the Greeks. She pointed out the paragraph of Euripides, which is one of Helen's roles confessed in a devastating war.

"This part is very interesting, it will easily convey the surface of the paint, instantaneous properties, so you can easily remove it, but if you understand the words literally then you will become a paint factory. It is essence - a beautiful image. "

Mr. Blaszczyk first explained the historical importance of color. In ancient Egypt, the ointment jar was made of dark blue cobalt and white glass, the monument of ancient Greece was drawn in vivid color. Color has also appeared in the "Supplementary Law" which was introduced in the Middle Ages by many countries to regulate what can be worn by people with different social classes. One of Queen Victoria, King Henry VIII, insisted on being the only person in the country allowed to wear purple clothes during his reign.

Blue is generally considered to be the color and reproduction of life. This is because our sky and water are blue. It can evoke peace, tranquility, stability, harmony, unity and safety. Returning to ancient Greece, blue represents a virgin. The other side of blue is emotional indifference and depression. In addition to the above expressions, colors also represent concepts. This means that it has a specific meaning. For example, in traffic lights, red means stop, green means universal. Another good example is a green robe worn by surgeons all over the world. Green has the effect of calming the mind on humans. That is why we believe that all operating rooms and robes are environmentally friendly around the world.

In ancient Greece, green and blue were sometimes regarded as the same color, and the same words sometimes represented the color of the sea and the color of the tree. The philosopher Democritus described two different green: cloon, or pale green, prasinon, or amaranth green. Aristotle believes that while green is between black and symbolizes the earth, white symbolizes water. But green can not be counted as four classic colors of Greek paintings - red, yellow, black, white - rarely seen in Greek art