Description: Painting in Stone : Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment, Paperback by Barry, Fabio, ISBN 0300248172, ISBN-13 9780300248173, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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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Book Title: Painting in Stone : Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from A
Number of Pages: 432 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Painting in Stone : Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
Publisher: Yale University Press
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2022
Subject: Engineering (General), History / Medieval, Methods & Materials, History / Baroque & Rococo
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 57.6 Oz
Item Length: 11 in
Author: Fabio Barry
Subject Area: Architecture, Technology & Engineering
Item Width: 8.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
