Almost Eternal : Painting on Stone and Material Innovation in Early Modern Europe
Subtitle: Painting on Stone and Material Innovation in Early Modern Europe
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9789004315051
Subjects: Painting, european; Diffusion of innovations
Description: Almost Eternal: Painting on Stone and Material Innovation in Early Modern Europe' gathers together an international group of ten scholars, who offer a novel account of the phenomenon of oil painting on stone surfaces in Northern and Southern Europe. This technique was devised in Rome by Sebastiano del Piombo in the early sixteenth century and was practiced until the late seventeenth century. This phenomenon has attracted little attention previously: the volume therefore makes a significant and timely contribution to the field in the light of recent studies of materiality and the rise of technical Art History.