Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Barry, Fabio

Titel

"Painting in Stone": Early Modern Experiments in a Metamedium

Ist Teil von

• The Art bulletin (New York, N.Y.), 2017-09, Vol.99 (3), p.30-61

Ort / Verlag

New York: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Taylor & Francis Online

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Although Pliny the Elder had only metaphorically described colored marbles as "painting in stone," early modern artists from Siena to Oxford sought chemical means to infuse images in marble. They reproduced the works of "Nature the Painter" as both cabinet curiosities and religious images whose programmed "eikonogenesis" could replicate the miraculous acheiropoieton. In the eighteenth century, the principe di Sansevero and comte de Caylus both claimed to have reinvented the technique; the former dabbled in alchemy, but the latter aimed to reconstruct ancient painting in substance, not simply in style, and compete with the authentic examples just unearthed in Herculaneum.