Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment Barry Fabio
Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment Barry Fabio A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stoneSpanning…
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Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment Barry Fabio
A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stoneSpanning almost five millennia, Painting in Stone tells a new history of premodern architecture through the material of precious stone. 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. 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.
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