Beschreibung:
The present volume builds upon the body of recent and emerging research - from antiquity to the present day - to embrace a global focus and addressing the more unusual (or at least unexpected) uses, meanings, and aesthetic appeal of marble.
Introduction: Radical Marble: Architecture and Innovation from Antiquity to Modernity 1. Decoration as Deliberate Design: the Strategic Display of Polychrome Marbles at the Baths of Caracalla 2. Justinian's Hagia Sophia, Angels and Restlessness 3. Controversial Continuities. Giacinto Gimma and the Art of Marble Intarsia 4. 'In Bright tints ... Nature's Own Formation': the Uses and Meaning of Marble in Victorian Building Culture 5. The Silent Seed of Modernity: How Marble Made Rationalism 6. "In consequence of their whiteness": Photographing Marble Sculpture from Talbot to Today 7.The Radical Politics of Marble in Fascist Italy