Welcome to the Tracking Colour objects database. It contains information on ancient artworks from the collections of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek examined for their original polychromy.

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  • Head of Zeus/Jupiter

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    • IN 1819
    • Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
    • The head is made of white marble. The nose is missing.
      Traces of red-brown paint can be seen with the naked eye in the hair and beard .

      In July, 2002 the head was given a new plinth.

  • Funerary altar

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    • IN 861
    • Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
    • The altar is made of white marble. Tip of each nose (on the half-figured double portrait of a married couple), the columns (flanking the portrait) and the edges slightly damaged; the woman’s right thumb has been broke...

  • Archaising marble relief

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    • IN 1623
    • Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
    • The relief is made of Carrara marble. It is assembled from five large and several smaller individual pieces.
      Frederik Poulsen argues (Poulsen, 1951) that the bearded man with the drawn sword on the right is missing a...

  • Head of a young man

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    • IN 2264
    • Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
    • The head is made of white marble. The nose has been broken off and is missing, and the rims of the ears are badly bruised. There is an indentation in the forehead.
      Frederik Poulsen noted in his catalogue from 1951 th...

  • Portrait of Roman woman

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    • IN 1492
    • Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
    • The head is made of white marble with a yellowish brown patina. The nose has been broken off, and the head seems to have belonged to a statue.

      Frederik Poulsen noted in his catalogue (Poulsen, 1951), that vestiges ...

  • Statue of a small boy with a water jar

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    • IN 511
    • Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
    • The statue is made of fine-grained, white marble and has incrustations and root marks on the surface. The left arm, right arm with part of the object on the right shoulder, right leg, lower part of the left leg as wel...

  • Portrait of a Roman woman

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    • IN 751
    • Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
    • The bust is made of white marble. The tip of the nose and the lower left part of the neck section are broken off and missing. Traces of red paint can be seen in the hair with the naked eye. On the right side of the wo...

  • Running woman

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    • IN 1682
    • Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
    • The statue is made of Parian lychnites marble. The upper right arm and the lower left arm are missing. The head was attached with a dowel, and the front of the neck has been reworked. The statue was examined with Visi...