Giometti, Cristiano ; Cinzia Maria Sicca — I Colori Del Marmo

Pisa, Italy, Pisa University Press, 2019. Softcover. Black wraps with color illustration and white text, French flaps inside covers. 225 pp. Many color illustrations. "One of the most lasting and consistent credits of the ancient civilization are the polychrome marmers, which flowed to Rome from every province of the Empire, subject to continuous recovery and reuse during subsequent eras. The beginning of the use of ornamental marbles in the modern age is used to coincide with the pontificate of Paul III Farnese (1534-1549), in parallel with the activity of scholars and antiquarians in the trade of the countless varieties that resurfaced during the excavations. To contribute in defining the taste is the choice of the Doctors to found in the 1588 in Florence the Gallery of Works that in 1605 reached its maximum splendor with the start of the work of encrustations in marble and hard stones of the Chapel of the Princes in Saint Lawrence. In this example, the use of committing the marbles among themselves is widespread, from the monumental scale to the smallest one of table tops, chests and jambs coveted grand tourists and diplomatic gifts excellence. This volume intends to investigate the declinations of this ongoing phenomenon and offer new research perspectives: by drawing a map of taste in the modern age that spreads from the Roman epicenter to the major Italian artistic centers, from Genoa, to Turin, to Naples, to distant England." - translated from Italian inside cover. VG .