Sedimentary Aesthetics: Painting on Stone and the Ecology of Early Modern Art Publisher / Trolley Books Ear posts are gold-plated sterling

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visceral photographic collages in direct conversation with the words and worlds that bracket and surround them

Artists at Home looks inside the homes of great artists and examines how their interiors reflected and inspired their artistic spirit

This title captures an international style and an architecture both timeless and desirable that continues to be highly influential around the globe

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Sedimentary Aesthetics: Painting on Stone and the Ecology of Early Modern Art Publisher / Trolley Books Ear posts are gold-plated sterlingAn unprecedented investigation of painting on stone in sixteenth and seventeenth century Italy that considers the ecological and artistic forces that made the genre transformative In 1530 the Venetian painter Sebastiano del Piombo (14851547) chose an unusual surface for a painting of Christ: a large hewn stone. Treating the stone as a portable canvas, Sebastiano created a work of art that his contemporaries viewed as "almost eternal" and initiated 150