Radical Marble - Architectural Innovation From Antiquity to the Present

List of contents

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

About the author

J. Nicholas Napoli (Ph.D. Princeton) lives in Brooklyn and currently works with GKV Architects in New York; previously, he taught History of Art and Architecture at the University of York, University of Virginia, and Pratt Institute. He was a visiting senior fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in 2013, and published his book on the Certosa di San Martino in Naples with Ashgate in 2015.

William Tronzo (Ph.D. Harvard) is Senior Teaching Professor in History of Art, Architecture and Landscape and Director of European Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: J. Nicholas Tronzo Napoli
• Assisted by: J. Nicholas Napoli (Editor), Napoli J. Nicholas (Editor), William Tronzo (Editor), Tronzo William (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367666866
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66686-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Routledge Research in Art History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Architectural structure & design, ARCHITECTURE / Methods & Materials, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Construction / General, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, History of Architecture, Building construction & materials, Building construction and materials, Materials in architecture