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PAINTING IN STONE : ARCHITECTURE AND THE POETICS OF MARBLE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT

PAINTING IN STONE : ARCHITECTURE AND THE POETICS OF MARBLE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT

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  • ISBN:978-0-300-24816-6
  • EAN:9780300248166
  • Editorial: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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  • Nº Pág.:448
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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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