书名：Painting in Stone : Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment / 石头绘画：从古代到启蒙运动的建筑与大理石诗学
定价：280.0
ISBN：9780300248173
作者：Fabio Barry
版次：1
出版时间：2021-12

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题 目：Painting in Stone : Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment / 石头绘画：从古代到启蒙运动的建筑与大理石诗学

作 者：Fabio Barry

出 版：Yale University Press，2021

装 帧：平装，432页

尺 寸：21.5*27.9 cm

 

 

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.