{"id":36930,"date":"2022-08-11T09:37:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T14:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=36930"},"modified":"2022-08-11T09:37:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T14:37:49","slug":"word-of-the-day-817","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/08\/11\/word-of-the-day-817\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Polychrome<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Polychrome is the &#8220;practice of decorating architectural elements, sculpture, etc., in a variety of colors.&#8221; The term is used to refer to certain styles of architecture, pottery or sculpture in multiple colors.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polychrome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/arts-entertainment\/2022\/08\/11\/ancient-sculptures-colorized-met\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>What if the ancient Greeks and Romans actually had terrible taste?<\/em><\/a>&#8221; Philip Kennicott, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In its new exhibition, the Met is pushing back against the general resistance, using speculative reconstructions by Vinzenz Brinkmann and his wife, Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, scholars based in Frankfurt, Germany, who have specialized in the study of what is called polychromy. These include a painted reconstruction of the Met\u2019s sixth-century B.C. marble sphinx finial, in which the wings are red and blue with gilded feathers, the tail dipped in blue and the neck ornamented with a red-and-gold choker.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well. Far be it for an artistic heathen like me to say anything. Harrumph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polychrome: Polychrome is the &#8220;practice of decorating architectural elements, sculpture, etc., in a variety of colors.&#8221; The term is used to refer to certain styles of architecture, pottery or sculpture in multiple colors. [Wikipedia] Noted in &#8220;What if the ancient Greeks and Romans actually had terrible taste?&#8221; Philip Kennicott, WaPo: \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/08\/11\/word-of-the-day-817\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36931,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36930\/revisions\/36931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}