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ix, 438 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm |
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Chapter 1. A medium foretold : material synthesis and heavenly stones in the ancient Near East -- Chapter 2. A medium fulfilled : the emergence of the marble temple -- Chapter 3. Ancient geology, living rock, and ex uno lapide -- Chapter 4. Painting in stone : from Knossos to Rome, from fresco to marble -- Chapter 5. Homes fit for heroes : luxury and light from the per a'a to the domus -- Chapter 6. Medieval substitutions in the western church -- Chapter 7. Hagia Sophia and Byzantium -- Chapter 8. Walking on water : cosmic floors in antiquity and the middle ages -- Chapter 9. Relics, tabernacles, throne rooms : painting and marbled architecture in the renaissance -- Chapter 10. Renaissance chapels and church façades : antiquarianism, gems, and sympathetic magic -- Chapter 11. Marble mansions and painted palaces in renaissance Italy -- Chapter 12. From gems to cloud architecture : reinventing marbling in early modern Rome. |
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9780300248166 |
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0300248164 |
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