[PDF/Kindle] Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment by Fabio Barry
Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment. Fabio Barry
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ISBN: 9780300248166 | 448 pages | 12 Mb
- Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
- Fabio Barry
- Page: 448
- Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
- ISBN: 9780300248166
- Publisher: Yale University Press
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Overview
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.
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