Role of a Replica - Digital Resources

ROLE OF A REPLICA

Digital Resources

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DEFINITIONS

DISCOVERING ANCIENT DETAILS

RE-CREATE LOST ARTWORK

MOLDS & CASTS

SYMPOSIUM

**Definitions**

Learn the terms experts use when talking about replicas.

DEFINITIONS

**What are molds and casts?**

**Videos**
How was it made? Plaster cast — Victoria and Albert Museum
The Making of a Bronze Statue, 1922 | From the Vaults — The Metropolitan Museum of Art
**Presentation Slides**
The Nashville Parthenon Polychromy Project

Parthenon Create Videos

Parthenon Create - Volute Spiral

Parthenon Create - Grids & Athena

Parthenon Create - Negative Space & Metopes

**Parthenon Symposium Videos**
Parthenon Marbles Casts
20 Years of Gold on Athena
Pandora & Polychromy on the Base of Athena Parthenos
Conservation 101

**How do you re-create a lost artwork?**

**Article**
Architectural Polychromy on the Athenian Acropolis: An In Situ Non-Invasive Analytical Investigation of the Colour Remains by Eleni Aggelakopoulou, Sophia Sotiropoulou, and Georgios Karagiannis
**Parthenon Webpages**
Athena
Architecture Tours
Sketching the Marbles
International Archaeology Day — October 21, 2023
**Audio**
John Early Concrete Audio Tour track (2:07), part of the Exterior Architecture Audio Tour
Athenashville: Parallel Parthenons with Katie Petrole — Peopling the Past Season 1, Episode 4
**Videos**
Staff & Docent Training: The Making of Athena with Alan LeQuire (1994 Staff & Docent Training)
"The Real, the Replica, & the Copy" with Assistant Director Lauren Bufferd
LeQuire Gallery Welcome
Polychromy Parthenon
STEAM Expedition to the Parthenon Playlist
**Blog Posts — TCPA 30 Days of Archaeology**
Why is this here? The Parthenon in Nashville
Dive into Archaeology this Fall at the Nashville Parthenon
An Archaeological Odyssey with the Parthenon

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**How is science revealing ancient details?**

**Ancient Sources**
*Description of Greece* by Pausanias 1.24.5, 1.24.6, 1.24.7
*The Natural History* by Pliny the Elder 35.12-35.32, 33.38-39, 33.57
**Books**
*From Pentelicon to the Parthenon : the ancient quarries and the story of a half-worked column capital of the first marble Parthenon* by Dr. Manolis Korres
*Stones of the Parthenon: the ancient quarries and the story of a half-worked column capital of the first marble Parthenon* by Dr. Manolis Korres
**Virtual Reality**
Flyover Zone — Athens Reborn
Flyover Zone — Virtual Museum
**Articles**
The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture by Margaret Talbot
‘Gods in Color’ returns antiquities to their original, colorful grandeur
**Exhibition**
Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color — The Metropolitan Museum of Art
**Videos**
The Modern Invention of Ancient White Marble | Portrait Bust of Caligula | Spotlight — The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ancient sculpture was colorful! Gods in Color—Golden Edition. *In German with English subtitles
Exhibition Tour | Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color at The Metropolitan Museum of Art | July 2022 — Art Trip
Symposium—Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color, Day 1 — The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Symposium—Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color, Day 2 — The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In Full Color, Ancient Sculpture Reimagined — Smarthistory

Symposium:

***Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Technology Replicas***
Information
Watch the Symposium from July 19, 2023, all about replicas. The recording is also available on YouTube.

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