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3. Ancient Geology, Living Rock, and Ex Uno Lapide
Fabio Barry
Description: Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the...
Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
~As temples in marble, then other civic buildings as well, became common in fifth-century Greece, her natural philosophers came to reflect on minerals, and the first scientific literature on geology was born.
Author
Fabio Barry
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2020 by Fabio Barry
Related print edition pages: pp.49-79
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00283.4
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22086
Chapter subject tags:Alexandria (Egypt)--HistoryArchitecture, RomanMarble in architectureGeology--HistoryArchitecture, AncientArchitecture, Ancient--EgyptArchitecture and philosophyNymphaea (Architecture)Mineralogy--HistoryMineralogyGeologyMosaics, RomanPolychromy (Architecture)

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3. Ancient Geology, Living Rock, and Ex Uno Lapide