Almost Eternal : Painting on Stone and Material Innovation in Early Modern Europe.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface: The Study of Painting on Stone Comes of Age -- Judith Mann -- Acknowledgments -- Piers Baker-Bates -- Elena Calvillo -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Piers Baker-Bates and Elena Calvillo -- Plates -- 1-15 -- Part 1 -- Sebastiano del Piombo's Invention and Its Initial Influence -- Chapter 1 -- 'Uno Nuovo Modo di Colorire in Pietra': Technical Experimentation in the Art of Sebastiano del Piombo* -- Piers Baker-Bates -- Chapter 2 -- Painted Stone: Idea and Practice in Italian Renaissance -- Ana González Mozo -- Chapter 3 -- 'Un paragone con oro su': Material Innovation, Invention and Sebastiano del Piombo's Papal Portraiture* -- Elena Calvillo -- Part 2 -- Ars et Natura: The Poetics and Collecting of Paintings on Stone -- Chapter 4 -- The Matter of Similitude: Stone Paintings and the Limits of Representation in Cavaliere d'Arpino's Perseus and Andromeda and Jacques Stella's Jacob's Dream -- Christopher J. Nygren -- Plates -- 16-32 -- Chapter 5 -- Antonio Tempesta's Paintings on Stone and the Development of a Genre in 17th-Century Italy -- Johanna Beate Lohff -- Chapter 6 -- Glances into Stone: Hans von Aachen's Paintings on Stone -- Susanne Wegmann -- Chapter 7 -- Painting on Stone and Metal: Material Meaning and Innovation in Early Modern Northern European Art -- Nadia Baadj -- Part 3 -- Other Materials, Metaphors, and Inventions -- Chapter 8 -- 'Painting the Eternal': Micromosaic Materiality and Transubstantiation in an Icon of Christ at Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, Rome* -- Anna Marazuela Kim -- Chapter 9 -- Invention, Ambition and Failure: Niccolò Tornioli (1606-51) and 'Il Segreto di Colorire il Marmo' -- Giulia Martina Weston -- Di Siena il dì 13 d'Ottobre 1640. -- Chapter 10 -- Salvator Rosa: A Variety of Surfaces -- Helen Langdon -- Index.

Ten authors offer novel accounts of the phenomenon of oil painting on stone surfaces in Northern and Southern Europe, from Sebastiano del Piombo's invention at Rome in the sixteenth century to the material experimentation of later painters through the seventeenth century.

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