True Colours: Polychromy in Ancient Greek Art and its Dissemination in Museum Collections | Cecilie BRØNS and Maria PAPADOPOULOU 63 Cecilie Brøns Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Dantes Plads 7, 1556 Copenhagen, Denmark cebr@glyptoteket.dk Maria Papadopoulou SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen Karen Blixens Vej 4, 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark papadopoulou@hum.ku.dk Cecilie Brøns is post.doc and director of the interdis- ciplinary research project “Transmission and Trans- formation. Ancient Polychromy in an architectural Context” at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. She holds a PhD in Classical archaeology from the University of Copenhagen and the National Museum of Denmark. Her research focuses on the colours of the ancient world, in particular the polychromy of ancient art and architecture. Her recent publications include the monograph “Gods and Garments. Textiles in Greek Sanctuaries in the 7th to the 1st Centuries BC” (2016) and the articles “Egyptian Blue. Modern Myths, an- cient realities” (Journal of Roman Archaeology 29, 2016, co-authored with A. Skovmøller) and “Paint- ed Faces. Investigations of Polychromy on Etruscan Antefxes in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek” (Etruscan Studies 19.1 2016, co-authored with S. S. Hedegaard). Maria Papadopoulou is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Copenhagen with the pro- ject Chlamys. The cultural biography of a garment in Hellenistic Egypt. Her interdisciplinary research com- bines textual and material sources. Her PhD (2011) deals with the Semantics of Colour in Hellenistic Po- etry. Her publications include “Scientifc knowledge and poetic skill: colour words in Nicander’s Theriaca and Alexipharmaca.” in Harder et al. Nature and Sci- ence in Hellenistic Poetry, 2009.