Main entry:

Barry, Fabio, author.

Title & Author:

Painting in stone : architecture and the poetics of marble from antiquity to the enlightenment / Fabio Barry.

Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]
©2020

Description:

ix, 438 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1. A medium foretold : material synthesis and heavenly stones in the ancient Near East -- Chapter 2. A medium fulfilled : the emergence of the marble temple -- Chapter 3. Ancient geology, living rock, and ex uno lapide -- Chapter 4. Painting in stone : from Knossos to Rome, from fresco to marble -- Chapter 5. Homes fit for heroes : luxury and light from the per a'a to the domus -- Chapter 6. Medieval substitutions in the western church -- Chapter 7. Hagia Sophia and Byzantium -- Chapter 8. Walking on water : cosmic floors in antiquity and the middle ages -- Chapter 9. Relics, tabernacles, throne rooms : painting and marbled architecture in the renaissance -- Chapter 10. Renaissance chapels and church façades : antiquarianism, gems, and sympathetic magic -- Chapter 11. Marble mansions and painted palaces in renaissance Italy -- Chapter 12. From gems to cloud architecture : reinventing marbling in early modern Rome.

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.

ISBN:

9780300248166 (hardcover)
0300248164 (hardcover)
9780300248173 (paperback)
0300248172 (paperback)

Subject:

Marble.
Marble buildings.
Marble sculpture.
Marble in art.
Color in art.
Color in architecture.
Architecture.
Symbolism of colors.
Marbles (Game objects)
Marbre.
Sculpture en marbre.
Marbre dans l'art.
Couleur dans l'art.
Couleur en architecture.
Symbolisme des couleurs.
Constructions en marbre.
Billes (Pièces de jeu)
marbles (game pieces)
marble (rock)
architecture (discipline)

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 310193
Call No.: BIB 255291
Status: Available