TY - BOOK ID - 80744730 TI - Painting in stone : architecture and the poetics of marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment PY - 2020 SN - 9780300248166 0300248164 9780300248173 0300248172 PB - New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press DB - UniCat KW - Architecture KW - Building materials KW - Marble buildings KW - Aesthetics KW - History. KW - Marble. KW - Marble buildings. KW - Marble sculpture. KW - Marble in art. KW - Color in art. KW - Color in architecture. KW - Architecture. KW - Symbolism of colors. KW - Color symbolism KW - Symbolic colors KW - Color KW - Colors KW - Architecture, Western (Western countries) KW - Building design KW - Buildings KW - Construction KW - Western architecture (Western countries) KW - Art KW - Building KW - Architectural polychromy KW - Color in building KW - Interior decoration KW - Polychromy KW - Colors in art KW - Monochrome art KW - Sculpture KW - Metamorphic rocks KW - Calcium carbonate KW - Psychological aspects KW - Design and construction KW - Precious stones. KW - Psychologial aspects. KW - Marble in interior decoration KW - Mural painting and decoration, Ancient KW - Mural painting and decoration, Medieval KW - Architecture, Primitive KW - Marble KW - Marble sculpture KW - Marble in art KW - Color in art KW - Color in architecture KW - Symbolism of colors KW - architecture [object genre] KW - marble [rock] KW - Antiquity KW - anno 500-1499 KW - anno 1500-1799 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80744730 AB - 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. ER -