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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 naturalor divinepainting, thanks to their vivacious veining, rainbow palette, and chance images.
- Illustratör: 214 color + 116 b, w illus
- Format: Pocket/Paperback
- ISBN: 9780300248173
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 432
- Utgivningsdatum: 2021-12-07
- Förlag: Yale University Press