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"Marble is one of the great veins through the architectural tradition and fundamental building block of the Mediterranean world, from the Parthenon of mid-fifth century Athens, which was constructed of pentelic marble, to Justinian's Hagia Sophia in Constantinople and the Renaissance and Baroque basilica of St. Peter's in the Vatican. Scholarship has done much in recent years to reveal the ways and means of marble. The use of colored marbles in Roman imperial architecture has recently been the subject of a major exhibition and the medieval traditions of marble working have been studied in the context of family genealogies and social networks. In addition, architectural historians have revealed the meanings evoked by marble revetted and paved surfaces, from Heavenly Jerusalem to frozen water. The present volume builds upon the body of recent and emerging research - from antiquity to the present day - to embrace a global focus and addressing the more unusual (or at least unexpected) uses, meanings, and aesthetic appeal of marble. It presents instances where the use of marble has revolutionized architectural practice, suggested new meaning for the built environment, or defined a new aesthetic - moments where this well-known material has been put to radical use."--Provided by publisher.

Building materials. Building technology --- marble [rock] --- architecture [discipline] --- architectural history --- Architecture --- Marble buildings --- History. --- Marble in interior decoration --- Marble sculpture --- History --- 691.2 --- Bouwmaterialen ; marmer --- Beeldhouwkunst ; marmer --- Architectural aesthetics --- Aesthetics, Architectural --- Aesthetics --- Buildings --- Bouwmaterialen ; natuursteen

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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