Barbieri, Gabriella (2015) Il colore nelle architetture funerarie di Sovana : la tomba dei Demoni Alati e altri monumenti policromi. FOLD&R FastiOnLine documents & research (343). pp. 1-16. ISSN 1828-3179
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Abstract
The recent discovery of the Demoni Alati tomb in Sovana has revealed the essential role of polychromy in Etruscan archi-tecture and underlined an aspect which has not yet been the object of much attention. In fact, in the figurative program of the funerary monument, polychromy must not have had an unimportant role, considering the fact that it was an architecture intended to be visible from far away, created to express the richness of the dominant aristocracy. As with other Hellenistic monuments in the necropolis of Sovana, carved out of tufo stone, it gives an important sample of the sensitivity of Etruscans towards polychromy. This article contains an investigation on the painting techniques and a study on the colours documented in Sovana, with spe-cial attention to the Demoni Alati and Ildebranda tomb. Our research makes it clear that it is possible to discover and analyse coloured areas, even when highly decayed, and even when dealing with measures of millimetres.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Sovana, tomba, demoni, colori |
| Subjects: | 900 Storia, Geografia e discipline ausiliarie > 930 Storia dei mondo antico fino al 499 ca. 900 Storia, Geografia e discipline ausiliarie > 930 Storia dei mondo antico fino al 499 ca. > 939 Archeologia – Altre Regioni del mondo antico |
| Depositing User: | Dott.ssa Helga Di Giuseppe |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Nov 2015 09:48 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Nov 2015 09:48 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/11803 |
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