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historical and technical terms, the development o pictorial
means, such as, the use o shading, three-dimensionality,
spatial perspective, transparency, and gilding - innovations
that characterize the Hellenistic period.”
Creating these works required more than just a keen eye
and skilled hand. Scientic techniques have revealed these
ancient artists used local and imported natural minerals,
dyes and plant gums, because o their luster and material
characteristics. They also used articial composites such as
high red ceramics glass rits and organo-metallic complexes
with the desired properties.
One o the works Kakoulli has analyzed extensively is the
marble throne that decorates the tomb o Eurydice Sirra,
Queen o Macedonia in the 4th Century BC, and better
known as the grandmother o Alexander the Great.
The ree-standing throne is the most outstanding eature
o the tomb. The legs and armrests are decorated with emale
gures, lions and deer, and mythological creatures like gri-
ns. The most impressive part o the throne is the painted
‘picture panel’ representing a painting o Pluto and Perse-
phone on a our-horse chariot.
“For the study o this unique and archaeologically signicant
artiact, a variety o techniques were used. These included,
broadband imaging rom the ultraviolet to near inrared; opti-
cal and electron microscopy; inrared and x-ray spectroscopy,
as well as chromatographic techniques,” said Kakoulli.
According to Kakoulli, the analysis has shed new light
on the technology o ancient painted monuments, including
highly sophisticated techniques using a variety o natural
(local and imported) and synthetic materials.
Though the technology o the ancient Greeks remains Ka
oulli’s primary research interest, she also collaborates with
other UCLA researchers.
She is the co-director o a project that examines Pre-
Columbian mummied human remains in Northern Chile’s
Tarapaca Valley. This project incorporates modern medicin
as well as natural and orensic science to examine organic
materials — to the molecular level — that can deduce the
types o diseases they may have had, and the types o drugs
they may have used.
More recently, she is leading a research project on unique
12th Century Byzantine murals at the monastery o St. Neo
phytos in Paphos, Cyprus.
Kakoulli teaches students in the UCLA/Getty conservatio
program and in the materials science department through
hands-on research projects.
“Our students are really very ortunate to have access to
state-o-the-art acilities with advanced instrumentation at
UCLA and the Getty Villa. Undoubtedly, UCLA and the
Getty oer a unique educational and research platorms tha
enable and enhance learning and discovery. Our approach
exposes students to critical and creative thinking that helps
prepare them or successul careers,” said Kakoulli.
More inormation on Ioanna Kakoulli’s research is availab
Details rom the painting decorating the throne in the ’Tomb o Eurydice’at Vergina, Greece.let: A photomicrograph o a mauve color used in the painting. The stratigraphy o the sampleshows the precipitation o the organic colorant on calcite crystals.middle: The painter used gum arabic as thebinding medium, and lakes (organometalliccomplexes) to create the illusionistic eect o transparency, clearly visible in the area where the
gold bracelet is.right: This photo was taken with obliqueillumination, enhancing the surace texture o