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Building Stones of Milan and Lombardy - 2-Volume Set (Hardcover) Loot Price: R5,935
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Building Stones of Milan and Lombardy - 2-Volume Set (Hardcover): Roberto Bugini, Luisa Folli

Building Stones of Milan and Lombardy - 2-Volume Set (Hardcover)

Roberto Bugini, Luisa Folli

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Milan and Lombardy have played an important role in the Italian country since the Roman period. This importance is reflected also by the diffusion of stone architecture: a persisting trait of Milan architecture was the use of different stones in the same building. Milan lies in the middle of the alluvial plain of the Po, far from the stone quarries; some waterways were dug out in order to supply the building stones from the surrounding territories. The study of stone as building material was significant at the end of 19th century, but then it was largely neglected by both architects and geologists. So it is significant to suggest a study about the stones employed to build in Milan (Part One) in relationship with a petrographic study about the features of the stones quarried in the whole Lombard territory (Part Two). Part One contains a record of Milanese edifices, edifices marking the different historical periods. Each edifice is described in a "card" containing: the building history, the architect, the kind of stone employed and subdivided according to the different parts of the building, the shape of stone elements. Part Two contains the description of the features of the stones reported in the first part. They are metamorphic and magmatic rocks of the Alpine area; sedimentary rocks and loose materials of the Prealpine area; sedimentary rocks of the Apennine area; loose sediments of the Padania plain. Some stones, coming from other northern Italian regions, and used in Lombard architecture, are also described. Each stone is described in a "card" containing: commercial and historical names, petrographic classification, macroscopic features, mineralogical composition, microscopic features, geological setting, quarry sites, transport to yards, morphology of dressed elements and surface handworking, use in architecture in the whole Lombard territory and abroad, decay morphologies. A particular investigation is addressed to the stones used during the 20th century, a great part of them was never used before in Milan and in Lombardy.

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Imprint: Crc Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: April 2023
Authors: Roberto Bugini • Luisa Folli
Dimensions: 246 x 174mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover • Hardcover
Pages: 704
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-34563-1
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Museums & museology
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LSN: 0-367-34563-3
Barcode: 9780367345631

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