polychrome

• “The 16th Century figure of Our Lady of Zapopan, made of pasta de caña (a paste made from the insides of corn stalks) and covered with gesso and polychrome, is said to be the second-most venerated Virgin in Mexico, following Our Lady of Guadalupe.”

  Clerical Garb, a Matter of Habit?

• “No matter where the spade turns the soil, it uncovers broken pavements and corroding metal; and scholars write that the kind of sand that artists call polychrome (because flecks of every color are mixed with its whiteness) is actually not sand at all, but the glass of the past, now pounded to powder by aeons of tumbling in the clamorous sea.”

  The Shadow of the Torturer

• “Consider the conquistadors of Christian Spain erecting polychrome crucifixes and santos over the ruins of Teotihuacan and Cuzcuo, while holding ornamented monstrances of pristine silverwork over the corpses and captives of preColumbia.”

  The Huffington Post: G. Roger Denson: China Takes Top Spot in Art Auction Sales Away From the US & UK -- What It Means for Global Culture

• “The dramatic main portal of the auditorium is flanked by massive bronze and polychrome marble figures representing "Comedy" and "Tragedy" by Gabriel-Jules Thomas.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Architecture as Allegory

• “Now two years into the process, Gleason has learned to modulate the spectacular brilliance, allowing the polychrome coating to emphasize the underlying colors, to collaborate with the physicality of his paint.”

  The Huffington Post: Bill Bush: The Tawdry Three-Ring Circus of Venice: This Artweek.LA (April 4-10)

• “In Marcel Proust's "À la Recherche du Temps Perdu," when the narrator contemplates a large fish being served for lunch, he perceives that the fish, with its "numberless vertebrae, its blue and pink veins," had been constructed "like a polychrome cathedral of the deep.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Like Dining With Rabelais

• “Statuary ranges from small terracotta figurines with traces of polychrome paint—a feminine head with demurely downcast black eyes, a tiny Cupid curled up asleep—to a colossal marble head of the Roman emperor Caracalla circa 211-217 A.D. and massive marble figures from a monumental colonnade in Thessaloniki.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Macedonia's Golden Artistry

• “Recent Classic works 550–800 A.D. include a small shell-and-jade skeleton figurine, like a medieval memento mori; and a surprising 8-inch tall whistle—a polychrome ceramic figure wearing an elaborate feathered headdress and holding two objects that look like maracas.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Fragile Show of Mayan Art

• “All we have are our eyes, and what at first seems like a sea of ivories and browns reveals bowls in intense greens, jars with lively blue-and-white decoration, incised vegetal motifs faintly visible beneath thick glazes, and such startling pieces as a 24-inch-tall polychrome jar 16th century with paintings of winged horses and demon-headed creatures.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Vietnamese Vessels for the Heart and Soul

• “Courtesy of the Birmingham Museum of Art A 16th-century polychrome jar.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Vietnamese Vessels for the Heart and Soul

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