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Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment - Softcover
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A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stone<br /><br /> 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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About the Author
Fabio Barry is assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University.
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- PublisherYale University Press
- Publication date2021
- ISBN 10 0300248172
- ISBN 13 9780300248173
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages432
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