Colorful Ancient Gods (Bunte Götter)
The colorful world of the ancient Greeks
4 April - 1 Juli 2007, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Exhibition-Catalogue (ca. 290 pages, ca. 480 fig., German language) at www.mkg-hamburg.de

fig.: Paris, around 490/480 BC. Color-reconstruction from the Aphaia-Temple of Aigina. Original Glyptothek Munich.

As the colors on the arms and legs are not tattooed, they have to be knitted! We know for sure that trousers of this time are made of woven materials. As they look so narrow on this picture, perhaps knitting was a known technique. next>>>