Painting In Stone: Architecture And The Poetics Of Marble From Antiquity To Enlightenment Fabio Barry Yale University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Arts

A Sweeping History Of Premodern Architecture Told Through The Material Stone Spanning Almost Five Millennia Painting In Tells New Precious Lavishly Illustrated Examples Include Synthetic Gems Used To Simulate Sumerian And Egyptian Heavens Marble Temples Mansions Greece Rome Painted Palaces Polychrome Chapels Early Modern Italy Multimedia Revival 19Th-Century England Poetry Lens For Understanding Costly Marbles As An Artistic Medium Summoned Spectrum Imaginative Associations Responses From Princes Patriarchs Populace Three Salient Themes Sustained This “Lithic Imagination”: Images Their Own Elemental Substance According Concepts Matter Geology Perceived Indwelling Astral Light Earthly Stones Enduring Belief That Colored Exhibited Form Natural—Or Divine—Painting Thanks Vivacious Veining Rainbow Palette Chance Σελίδες: 432 Έτος Έκδοσης: 1207 Διαστάσεις: 21 6X21 6Cm