Painting in Stone : Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment Hardback
by Fabio Barry
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A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stone Spanning almost five millennia, Painting in Stone tells a new history of premodern architecture through the material of precious stone.
Lavishly illustrated examples include the synthetic gems used to simulate Sumerian and Egyptian heavens; the marble temples and mansions of Greece and Rome; the painted palaces and polychrome marble chapels of early modern Italy; and the multimedia revival in 19th-century England.
Poetry, the lens for understanding costly marbles as an artistic medium, summoned a spectrum of imaginative associations and responses, from princes and patriarchs to the populace.
Three salient themes sustained this "lithic imagination": marbles as images of their own elemental substance according to premodern concepts of matter and geology; the perceived indwelling of astral light in earthly stones; and the enduring belief that colored marbles exhibited a form of natural-or divine-painting, thanks to their vivacious veining, rainbow palette, and chance images.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:448 pages
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:02/10/2020
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- ISBN:9780300248166
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:448 pages
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:02/10/2020
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- ISBN:9780300248166