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Painting in Stone - Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment (Paperback)
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Painting in Stone - Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment (Paperback)
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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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