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Cosa, a small Roman town, has been excavated since 1948 by the American Academy in Rome. This new volume presents the surviving sculpture and furniture in marble and other stones and examines their nature and uses. These artifacts provide an insight into not just life in a small Roman town but also its embellishment mainly from the late Republic and through the early Empire to the time of Hadrian. While public statuary is not well preserved, stone and marble material from the private sphere are well represented; domestic sculpture and furniture from the third century BCE to the first CE form by far the largest category of objects. The presence of these materials in both public and private spheres sheds light on the wealth of the town and individual families. The comparative briefness of Cosa's life means that this material is more easily comprehensible as a whole for the entire town as excavated, compared for instance to the much larger cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum

Sculpture, Roman --- Marble sculpture --- Furniture, Ancient --- Cosa (Extinct city) --- Antiquities. --- Sculpture --- Roman sculpture

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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