9. Relics, Tabernacles, Throne Rooms: Painting and Marbled Architecture in the Renaissance

Barry, Fabio

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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

~Only in Byzantium had the marble quarries continued to function after the fourth century, but not for long. By the ninth century, emperors were cannibalizing old churches to build new ones and, by the early fourteenth, a jobbing painter at the Chora Church (c....

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Fabio Barry

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.208-238

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00283.10

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22092

Chapter subject tags:Painting, Renaissance--ItalyPolychromy (Architecture)Marble in architectureRelics, RenaissanceTabernacles (Church furniture)--ItalyTabernacles (Church furniture)Mantegna, Andrea, 1431-1506Castagno, Andrea del, 1423-1457Altarpieces, Renaissance--ItalyBellini, Giovanni, 1426?-1516Architecture in art

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