Painting in Stone : Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

by: Barry, F.

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.

Lexicon of Fabricant Dies on Rhodian Amphora Stamps - vol. 3, Fabricants H to M / (Etudes Mediterraneennes 10)

by: Cankardes-Senol, G.

• ISBN-13: 9782869586550 / 978-2-86958-655-0
• ISBN-03: 2869586558 / 2-86958-655-8
• Ecole Francaise d'Athenes, , 2025

Price: 36,00 EURO

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Etudes Chypriotes VII : Amathonte III : Testimonia 3 : L'Orfevrerie, Scarabees, Coupe en Argent

by: Laffineur, R. Forgeau, A. Hermary, A.

• ISBN-13: 9782865381562 / 978-2-86538-156-2
• ISBN-03: 2865381560 / 2-86538-156-0
• Ecole Francaise d'Athenes, Paris, 1986

Price: 35,00 EURO

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A Hundred Years of Archaeology

by: Daniel, G.

• Duckworth, London, 1952

Price: 54,58 EURO

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Antike Numismatik : Teil II : Bibliographie

by: Radnoti-Alfoldi, M.

• ISBN-13: 9783805303354 / 978-3-8053-0335-4
• ISBN-03: 3805303351 / 3-8053-0335-1
• Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, 1982

Price: 32,00 EURO

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Studies in Byzantine Sigillography 6

by: Oikonomides, N.

• Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., 1999

Price: 89,00 EURO

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Eine Trubung des attischen Geistes ? : Ursprung, Entwicklung und Bedeutung archaischer Grabreliefs ausserhalb Attikas

by: Balandat, L.

• ISBN-13: 9783896468703 / 978-3-89646-870-3
• ISBN-03: 3896468703 / 3-89646-870-3
• Verlag Marie Leidorf, Rahden/Westf., 2023

Studies in Mycenaean Inscriptions and Dialect 1984-85

by: Dobson, N.

• ISBN-13: 9780964941076 / 978-0-9649410-7-6
• ISBN-03: 0964941074 / 0-9649410-7-4
• University of Texas Press, Austin, 2004

Price: 45,00 EURO

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Painting in Stone : Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

by: Barry, F.

• ISBN-13: 9780300248173 / 978-0-300-24817-3
• ISBN-03: 0300248172 / 0-300-24817-2
• Yale University Press, New Heaven, 2022

L'Enfant et la mort dans l'antiquite III: Le materiel associe aux tombes d'enfants. Actes de la table ronde internationale organisee a la Maison Mediterraneenne des Sciences de l'Homme (MMSH) d'Aix-en-Provence, 20-22 janvier 2011

by: Hermary, A. Dubois, C.

• ISBN-13: 9782877725224 / 978-2-87772-522-4
• ISBN-03: 2877725227 / 2-87772-522-7
• Editions Errance, Paris, 2012