The aesthetics of marble : from late antiquity to the present

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Munich : Hirmer, 2021 and ©2021

Subject:

Marble sculpture
Marble in interior decoration
Marble in art
Marble
Rocks in literature
Marble buildings

Contributor:

Gamboni, Dario, author, editor
Wolf, Gerhard, author, editor
Richardson, Jessica N., author, editor
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, publisher

ISBN:

9783777434483 and 3777434485

Description:

431 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 28 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-413) and index

Contents:

Introduction : marble, material, and image / Dario Gamboni and Gerhard Wolf -- Marble metamorphosis / Gerhard Wolf -- Churches and mosques : aesthetics and transfer of marble in early Islam / Mattia Guidetti -- Sacred marbles and holy spots in Rome : interpretations and re-interpretations in the Middle Ages / Daniela Mondini -- "From the highest heaven" : a Renaissance pax and a vision in marble / Jessica N. Richardson -- Style and the aesthetic of surface in architecture from Alberti to Michelangelo / Alina Payne -- Painting on marble : reflections on the meaning of stone supports / Johanna Beate Lohff -- For God and for the king : the elaboration of a symbolic use of marble in the Ancien Régime / Sophie Mouquin -- Attending to marble in eighteenth-century Britain / Malcolm Baker -- The animetic aesthetic of marbling / Raphael Rosenberg -- From wood to marble : altarpieces and devotional sculpture in Buenos Aires, Lima, and Santiago during the second half of the nineteenth century / Fernando Guzmán, Diego Fernando Guerra, and Paolo Piaresi -- The discourse of marble in the Spanish Caribbean : the case of the Capitolio Nacional in Havana / Maria Ocón Fernández -- Sober opulence : marble in the architecture of Adolf Loos / Marie Theres Stauffer -- Marble after modernism / Adrian Forty -- The non-finito in Auguste Rodin's marble oeuvre / Christine Wohlrab -- Between material and text : marble's material culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Alexandra Parigoris -- The quarry and the tower : filming marble's architectural anticipations / Spyros Papapetros -- Articulate stones in the digital age : "wrinkles, scars, blotches, bruises, fractures, mutilations, amputations, dislocations, and restorations" / Adam Lowe and Charlotte Skene Catling -- Marble for iconophiles and iconophobes / Dario Gamboni

Summary:

"Marble is a metamorphic stone that has been a material of choice and a subject of reflection for millennia. Its geology, history, and economics are well known, but its aesthetics remain understudied. This book sheds new light on the celebration and uses of marble in art and literature and on the iconic potential of the stone. Through empirical research centered on the Mediterranean from Late Antiquity to the present, it closely examines the artistic versatility of marble in its uses and re-uses, including the marble cladding of architecture, the carving of marble and painting on stone, their political and philosophical connotations, and the de- and re-materializing of marble made possible by digital technology"-- Back cover

Collection:

BGC Course Reserves

Call Number:

NB1210.M3 A38 2021

Available

c.1

Course Name:

450. Cosmic and Cosmetic: The Many (Sur)Faces of Ornament. BGC Spring 2023

Instructor:

de Godoy Lopes, N.