{"id":1888,"date":"2017-04-07T16:28:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T21:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2026-07-13T12:57:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:57:48","slug":"etruscan-gigantomachy-gods-vs-giants-coloring-the-past-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/etruscan-gigantomachy-gods-vs-giants-coloring-the-past-74\/","title":{"rendered":"Etruscan Gigantomachy, Gods vs Giants &#8211; Coloring the Past (74)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1889\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1889\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1889\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ep74-Etruscan-Gigantomachy-1984.2-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"Etruscan Relief Showing the Battle Between Gods and Giants\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ep74-Etruscan-Gigantomachy-1984.2-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ep74-Etruscan-Gigantomachy-1984.2.jpg 635w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artic.edu\/aic\/collections\/artwork\/111030\">Battle Between Gods and Giants, Etruscan, Art Institute of Chicago<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Etruscan Gigantomachy, Gods vs Giants - Coloring the Past (74)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_hJ3qIjvhFc?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>We examine the use of color in ancient art to designate role, status, nature, and more, and discuss causes for the disappearance of polychromy in ancient art.<\/p>\n<p>Side note: Why does the Egyptian God Osiris sometimes appear with black skin and sometimes with green skin?<\/p>\n<p>Names dropped: Zeus, Athena, Olympians, Giants, Gaia, Osiris<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,5],"tags":[36,512,506],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888"}],"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=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions\/1895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}