Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment - Couverture rigide

Barry, Fabio

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300248164 ISBN 13 : 9780300248166

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2020

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Fabio Barry is assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300248164
• ISBN 13: 9780300248166
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 448
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