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Art --- Sculpture --- Antiquity --- Rome --- Great Britain --- Greece --- Marble sculpture, Classical --- Sculpture en marbre antique --- Collectors and collecting --- History --- Private collections --- Collectionneurs et collections --- Histoire --- Collections privées --- Collections privées --- Marble sculpture [Classical ] --- collecting, United Kingdom

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Questo volume presenta gli esiti degli studi e delle ricerche intrapresi in occasione del restauro del Busto di Medusa di Gian Lorenzo Bernini. In un brillante saggio introduttivo di Maddalena Cima l'immagine di Medusa e la sua interpretazione nelle arti figurative, tra età arcaica e tardo antico, sono analizzati attraverso la trama del mito e delle fonti poetiche classiche, premessa indispensabile per comprendere l'assoluta novità dell'interpretazione berniniana della favola antica. La vicenda critica relativa all'attribuzione del Busto di Medusa a Gian Lorenzo Bernini è magistralmente ripercorsa da Irving Lavin in un saggio di grande fascino, mentre Elena Bianca Di Gioia ricostruisce le vicende storiche legate all'arrivo della scultura in Campidoglio nel 1731. La seconda parte del volume è interamente dedicata al restauro della scultura. Le indagini esperite e i dati raccolti sono presentati con l'intento di contribuire ad una più ampia comprensione e conoscenza delle opere e delle tecniche di lavorazione delle sculture di Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Conservation. Restoration --- Bernini, Giovanni Lorenzo --- Medusa [Mythological character] --- Marble sculpture --- Sculpture en marbre de la Renaissance --- Sculpture --- Sculpture de la Renaissance --- Conservation and restoration --- Conservation et restauration --- Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, --- Bernin, Le --- Medusa --- Méduse --- Art. --- Méduse

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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.

Architecture --- Building materials --- Marble buildings --- Aesthetics --- History. --- Marble. --- Marble buildings. --- Marble sculpture. --- Marble in art. --- Color in art. --- Color in architecture. --- Architecture. --- Symbolism of colors. --- Color symbolism --- Symbolic colors --- Color --- Colors --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Architectural polychromy --- Color in building --- Interior decoration --- Polychromy --- Colors in art --- Monochrome art --- Sculpture --- Metamorphic rocks --- Calcium carbonate --- Psychological aspects --- Design and construction --- Precious stones. --- Psychologial aspects. --- Marble in interior decoration --- Mural painting and decoration, Ancient --- Mural painting and decoration, Medieval --- Architecture, Primitive --- Marble --- Marble sculpture --- Marble in art --- Color in art --- Color in architecture --- Symbolism of colors --- architecture [object genre] --- marble [rock] --- Antiquity --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1500-1799