Painting in Stone Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
07.12.2021
Verlag
Yale University PressSeitenzahl
432
Maße (L/B/H)
22/28.4/2.8 cm
Gewicht
1634 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-300-24817-3
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.Noch keine Bewertungen vorhanden
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