Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment - Rilegato

Barry, Fabio

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ISBN 10: 0300248164 ISBN 13: 9780300248166

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2020

Riassunto

<div><b>A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stone</b><br><br> Spanning almost five millennia, <i>Painting in Stone</i> 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 &#8220;lithic imagination&#8221;: 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&#8212;or divine&#8212;painting, thanks to their vivacious veining, rainbow palette, and chance images.</div>

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Informazioni sull?autore

<div><b>Fabio Barry</b> is assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University.</div>

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0300248164
• ISBN 13: 9780300248166
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 438
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile