Pigments in Ancient Greek Painting & Medicine: Ecology, Materiality and the Alchemical Laboratory
Royce Hall, 306 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesPigments in Ancient Greek Painting & Medicine: Ecology, Materiality and the Alchemical Laboratory lecture by Ioanna Kakoulli (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA) Saturday, April 29, 2023 3:00 p.m. 306 Royce Hall Reception to follow Ancient Greek paintings between the fourth century BC and the third century AD are characterized by a splendor of colors, high artistic quality and rich pictorial effects such as shading, translucency and transparency, innovations that characterize and mark the art of Greek and later Roman painting traditions. Through the scientific analysis of surviving paintings—mainly wall paintings—this lecture explores the material ecology and intrinsic optical,...