The Collection
The American Wing Ancient Near Eastern Art Arms and Armor The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing Asian Art The Cloisters The Costume Institute Drawings and Prints Egyptian Art European Paintings European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Greek and Roman Art Islamic Art Robert Lehman Collection The Libraries Medieval Art Musical Instruments Photographs Antonio Ratti Textile Center Modern and Contemporary Art

Returned to lender The Met accepts temporary loans of art both for short-term exhibitions and for long-term display in its galleries.

Reconstruction of the so-called Chios Kore from the Athenian Acropolis

Vinzenz Brinkmann German
Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann

2012

Not on view

Reconstruction of the so-called Chios Kore from the Athenian Acropolis, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Cast from polymethyl metacrylat, natural pigments in egg tempera — This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Reconstruction of the so-called Chios Kore from the Athenian Acropolis, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Cast from polymethyl metacrylat, natural pigments in egg tempera

Reconstruction of the so-called Chios Kore from the Athenian Acropolis, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Cast from polymethyl metacrylat, natural pigments in egg tempera

Reconstruction of the so-called Chios Kore from the Athenian Acropolis, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Cast from polymethyl metacrylat, natural pigments in egg tempera

Reconstruction of the so-called Chios Kore from the Athenian Acropolis, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Cast from polymethyl metacrylat, natural pigments in egg tempera

Reconstruction of the so-called Chios Kore from the Athenian Acropolis, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Cast from polymethyl metacrylat, natural pigments in egg tempera

Reconstruction of the so-called Chios Kore from the Athenian Acropolis, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Cast from polymethyl metacrylat, natural pigments in egg tempera

Reconstruction of the so-called Chios Kore from the Athenian Acropolis, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Cast from polymethyl metacrylat, natural pigments in egg tempera

Reconstruction of the so-called Chios Kore from the Athenian Acropolis, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Cast from polymethyl metacrylat, natural pigments in egg tempera

Reconstruction of the so-called Chios Kore from the Athenian Acropolis, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Cast from polymethyl metacrylat, natural pigments in egg tempera

Reconstruction of the so-called Chios Kore from the Athenian Acropolis, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Cast from polymethyl metacrylat, natural pigments in egg tempera

Reconstruction of the so-called Chios Kore from the Athenian Acropolis, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Cast from polymethyl metacrylat, natural pigments in egg tempera

This artwork is meant to be viewed from right to left. Scroll left to view more.

This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Original: Marble sculpture of a Kore from the Athenian Acropolis, ca. 520–500 B.C., Acropolis Museum, Athens, inv. 675. Image: © Acropolis Museum by Socratis Mavrommatis

This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Reconstruction process: Artist Louis Émile Gilliéron documenting the polychromy, about 1900, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt, inv. 2798

This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Reconstruction process: Wilhelm Lehmann and Ingrid Kjaer documenting the polychromy, master copy of pl. 10 of Wilhelm Lermann, Altgriechische Plastik. Eine Einführung in die griechische Kunst des archaischen und gebundenen Stils (Munich 1907), Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich, inv. 15116. Image: Vinzenz Brinkmann

This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Original: Color traces on diadem and earring. Image Vinzenz Brinkmann

This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Original: Color traces on the left sleeve. Image Vinzenz Brinkmann

This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Original: Blue azurite (partially altered into green malachite after antiquity) on the shirt. Image Vinzenz Brinkmann

This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Original: Red cinnabar (partially altered into black metacinnabar after antiquity) on mantle and skirt. Image Vinzenz Brinkmann

This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Reconstruction process: Points of measurements of pigments with UV-Vis Absorption Spectroscopy and portable XRF. Image Vinzenz Brinkmann

This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Reconstruction process: Application of natural pigments on polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) 3D-print, intermediate state. Image Vinzenz Brinkmann

This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Reconstruction process: Application of natural pigments on polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) 3D-print, final state. Image Vinzenz Brinkmann

Title: Reconstruction of the so-called Chios Kore from the Athenian Acropolis

Artist: Vinzenz Brinkmann

Artist: Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann

Date: 2012

Medium: Cast from polymethyl metacrylat, natural pigments in egg tempera

Dimensions: 23 5/8 × 9 1/16 × 3 15/16 in. (60 × 23 × 10 cm)

Credit Line: Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Polychromy Research Project, Frankfurt am Main, acquired 2016 as gift from U. Koch-Brinkmann and V. Brinkmann

The Met

Greek and Roman Art at The Met

The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than 30,000 works ranging in date from the Neolithic period to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312.