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