Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Yale University Press, publisher.
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| ISBN: | 9780300267099
0300267096
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on March 7, 2022).
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| Summary: | 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""--Publisher's description.
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| Awards: | Apollo Magazine's Book of the Year, 2021
Joint-winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion from the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, 2021
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| Other form: | Print version: Barry, Fabio, Painting in stone 9780300248166 0300248164 9780300248173 0300248172
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