Radical Marble by J. Nicholas Napoli, William Tronzo - 9780367666866

Radical MarbleArchitectural Innovation from Antiquity to the Present\nAuthor(s): J. Nicholas Napoli, William Tronzo\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367666866, 978-0367666866\nSynopsis\nMarble is one of the great veins through the architectural tradition and fundamental building block of the Mediterranean world, from the Parthenon of mid-fifth century Athens, which was constructed of pentelic marble, to Justinians Hagia Sophia in Constantinople and the Renaissance and Baroque basilica of St. Peters in the Vatican. Scholarship has done much in recent years to reveal the ways and means of marble. The use of colored marbles in Roman imperial architecture has recently been the subject of a major exhibition and the medieval traditions of marble working have been studied in the context of family genealogies and social networks. In addition, architectural historians have revealed the meanings evoked by marble revetted .