Painting in stone: architecture and the poetics of marble from antiquity to the enlightenment

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 R...

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Main Author: Barry, Fabio (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven Yale University Press [2020]
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Online Access:DE-255
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Summary: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"--Publisher's description
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 438 Seiten) 329 Illustrationen, Pläne
ISBN:0300267096
9780300267099
DOI:10.37862/aaeportal.00283

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