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.

Sophistik

by: Classen, C.J.

• Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1976

Price: 68,00 EURO

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ΙΕΡΟΝ ΑΘΗΝΑΣ ΣΩΤΕΙΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΟΣΕΙΔΩΝΟΣ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΗΝ ΑΡΚΑΔΙΚΗΝ ΑΣΕΑΝ

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• , ΑΘΗΝΑ / Athens, 1957

Price: 15,00 EURO

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by: Akurgal, E.

• Haset Kitabevi, Istanbul, 1978

Price: 49,00 EURO

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Η ΠΑΝΙΔΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΔΙΑΤΡΟΦΗ ΚΑΙ ΣΤΗΝ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗ ΣΤΟ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΟ

by: ΧΡΟΝΗ, Μ.

• ISBN-13: 9789608351653 / 978-960-8351-65-3
• ISBN-03: 9608351650 / 960-8351-65-0
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• ISBN-13: 9780521842471 / 978-0-521-84247-1
• ISBN-03: 0521842476 / 0-521-84247-6
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008

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• ISBN-13: 9781407308487
• ISBN-03: 1407308483
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• ISBN-03: 0300248172 / 0-300-24817-2
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• Bar Publishing, Oxford, 2020