{"id":1846,"date":"2017-03-23T21:23:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T02:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2026-07-13T12:57:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:57:44","slug":"tinted-venus-painted-aphrodite-coloring-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/tinted-venus-painted-aphrodite-coloring-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinted Venus &#8211; Painted Aphrodite &#8211; Coloring the Past (72)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1847\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1847\" style=\"width: 197px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1847 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Tinted-Venus-1862-John-Gibson-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tinted Venus by John Gibson, 1862\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Tinted-Venus-1862-John-Gibson-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Tinted-Venus-1862-John-Gibson.jpg 524w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/tinted-venus-painted-aphrodite-coloring-the-past\/tinted-venus-1862-john-gibson\/\">Tinted Venus by John Gibson, 1862, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tinted Venus - Painted Aphrodite - Coloring the Past (72)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UyI5k4sAuhE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Many sculptural works from the ancient world were once beautifully colored. This is an excerpt of my gallery talk &#8220;Coloring the Past&#8221; in the Art Institute of Chicago from March 9, 2017. Here we discuss the original polychromy of the famous <em>Aphrodite of Knidos<\/em>\u00a0by Praxiteles and the 1862 <em>Tinted Venus<\/em> by English sculptor John Gibson.<\/p>\n<p>This recording comes complete with all the juicy, unscripted, live-action museum gallery accents of noisy kids, beeping proximity alarms, and echoing reverb. Please forgive the poor sound quality.<\/p>\n<p>[AFG_gallery id=&#8217;10&#8217;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[36,512,24,506,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}