Meraviglia senza tempo. Pittura su pietra a Roma tra Cinque e Seicento

by Francesca Cappelletti and Patrizia Cavazzini

published by Officina Libraria, 2022

256 pages. 145 colour illustrations. Hardback. 29x24cms.  Text in Italian. 

A study on the development of painting on stone (marble, lapis lazuli, porphyry, alabaster, agate) in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Rome. Ten essays discuss this technique as used by Sebastiano del Piombo, Sigismondo Laire and Antonio Tempesta;  its use outside Rome, in Florence, Verona, and Antwerp; and Paolo and Scipione Borghese's patronage. Followed by a catalogue of 67 works accompanied by bibliographies and notes on provenance. 

Ref: 122423

£45.00

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