{"product_id":"painting-in-stone-architecture-and-the-poetics-of-marble-from-antiquity-to-the-enlightenment-9780300248166","title":"Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePainting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment\u003c\/strong\u003e by Barry, Fabio. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780300248166.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stone\n\nSpanning 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45116145106997,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300248164","price":452.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300248166_dfad8605-a07c-4da7-a812-9abb1243b0d7.jpg?v=1781353537","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/painting-in-stone-architecture-and-the-poetics-of-marble-from-antiquity-to-the-enlightenment-9780300248166","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}