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Exhibition Review
The colour of life
09/2008 | 1266 | 150
Pages: 645-646
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Reviewer:
Bray, Xavier (Bray, Xavier)
Subjects
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Getty Villa, Malibu, United States
places:
Malibu / United States
print:
Sculpture
print:
Coloured sculpture
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Sculpture / Polychromy
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present | institution: Getty Villa
Illustrations
Attributed works:
90. Bust of Cardinal Giovanni de’ Medici, attributed to Antonio d’Orsino Benintendi. c.1512. Polychromed terracotta, 38.5 by 39 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; exh. Getty Villa, Malibu).
Western art unattributed:
91. Madonna and Chid with an angel. Venetian, c.1500–50. Chalcedony, 15.5 by 11 by 6 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; exh. Getty Villa, Malibu).
Western art unattributed:
92. Head of the Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known as Caligula. Roman, c.37–41 ad. Fine-grained, translucent Parian marble, 31 cm. high. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen; exh. Getty Villa, Malibu).