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Romantic History: Waterloo to the British Musem

The LRB Podcast

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Is It Still a Monochrome?

Technology is allowing the projection of colour on to facades of cathedrals, so that statues become polychrome. It's a sonilumia moment for art - and especially assyrian reliefs. Because it completely changes the legibility, they become a narrative. They become a story you can enter follow, engage with. And i think that again, becoming something that the public have no difficulty with this at all.

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