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Author : Duane Vandenbusche, Rex Myers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Marble, Colorado: City of Stone written by Duane Vandenbusche, Rex Myers and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephanie Storey
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1628726393
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Oil and Marble written by Stephanie Storey and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself. The two despise each other."--Front jacket flap.
Author : Kathleen S. Lamp
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611173361
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)
Download or read book A City of Marble written by Kathleen S. Lamp and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A City of Marble, Kathleen Lamp argues that classical rhetorical theory shaped the Augustan cultural campaigns and that in turn the Augustan cultural campaigns functioned rhetorically to help Augustus gain and maintain power and to influence civic identity and participation in the Roman Principate (27 b. c. e.—14 c. e.). Lamp begins by studying rhetorical treatises, those texts most familiar to scholars of rhetoric, and moves on to those most obviously using rhetorical techniques in visual form. She then arrives at those objects least recognizable as rhetorical artifacts, but perhaps most significant to the daily lives of the Roman people—coins, altars, wall painting. This progression also captures the development of the Augustan political myth that Augustus was destined to rule and lead Rome to greatness as a descendant of the hero Aeneas. A City of Marble examines the establishment of this myth in state rhetoric, traces its circulation, and finally samples its popular receptions and adaptations. In doing so, Lamp inserts a long-excluded though significant audience—the common people of Rome—into contemporary understandings of rhetorical history and considers Augustan culture as significant in shaping civic identity, encouraging civic participation, and promoting social advancement. Lamp approaches the relationship between classical rhetoric and Augustan culture through a transdisciplinary methodology drawn from archaeology, art and architectural history, numismatics, classics, and rhetorical studies. By doing so, she grounds Dionysius of Halicarnassus’s claims that the Principate represented a renaissance of rhetoric rooted in culture and a return to an Isocratean philosophical model of rhetoric, thus offering a counterstatement to the “decline narrative” that rhetorical practice withered in the early Roman Empire. Thus Lamp’s work provides a step toward filling the disciplinary gap between Cicero and the Second Sophistic.
Author : Fikret Yegül
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521470711
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Roman Architecture and Urbanism written by Fikret Yegül and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since antiquity, Roman architecture and planning have inspired architects and designers. In this volume, Fikret Yegül and Diane Favro offer a comprehensive history and analysis of the Roman built environment, emphasizing design and planning aspects of buildings and streetscapes. They explore the dynamic evolution and dissemination of architectural ideas, showing how local influences and technologies were incorporated across the vast Roman territory. They also consider how Roman construction and engineering expertise, as well as logistical proficiency, contributed to the making of bold and exceptional spaces and forms. Based on decades of first-hand examinations of ancient sites throughout the Roman world, from Britain to Syria, the authors give close accounts of many sites no longer extant or accessible. Written in a lively and accessible manner, Roman Architecture and Urbanism affirms the enduring attractions of Roman buildings and environments and their relevance to a global view of architecture. It will appeal to readers interested in the classical world and the history of architecture and urban design, as well as a wide range of academic fields. With 835 illustrations, including numerous new plans and drawings, as well as digital renderings.
Author : Ruth Beaumont Cook
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1588384187
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Magic in Stone written by Ruth Beaumont Cook and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sylacauga—Alabama’s “Marble City”—is blessed with an abundant natural resource that nurtures both its economy and its cultural heritage. Thirty-five miles long, at least four hundred feet deep, and more than a mile wide, the Sylacauga Marble Belt yields crystalline white marble frequently compared to the Parian marble treasured by Greek sculptors and the Italian Carrara marble often chosen by Michelangelo. Artisans have quarried Sylacauga marble for tombstones since the early 1800s, and architects prized it for years as dimension stone for buildings like the United States Supreme Court. In the early 1900s, Giuseppe Moretti and Gutzon Borglum both chose this marble for magnificent sculptures. When granite, better able to withstand industrial pollution, overtook marble as the preferred architectural stone in the 1930s, Sylacauga’s quarry owners shifted their focus to the production of ground calcium carbonate (GCC), a fundamental ingredient in manufactured products from toothpaste, foodstuffs, and disposable diapers to paints, caulks, and sealants. Many cringe at the idea of blasting and grinding marble into fine powder, but GCC is a vital factor in the local economy. Thankfully, the Magic of Marble Festival, first held in 2009, has revitalized interest in the artistic value of Sylacauga marble, inspiring sculptors from across the United States and masters from Italy to apply their skills to cream-white blocks of this beautiful stone and share their creativity with thousands of residents and visitors each year. This is the story of quarry pioneers, investors, artists, and artisans. It's also the story of their families, who fondly remember their lives along the edge of “the hole” that provided for them.
Author : Amalie Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781999992873
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Marble written by Amalie Smith and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amalie Smith ignites everyday encounters into sites of revelation and metamorphosis Recently unearthed from the ground, Marble leaves her new lover in Copenhagen and travels to Athens. The city is overflowing with colour, steam and fragrance, cats cry like babies at night, the economic crisis is raging. In this volatile landscape, Marble grasps the world by exploring its immediate surfaces. Capturing specks of colour on ancient sculptures in the Acropolis Museum with an infrared camera, she simultaneously traces the pioneering sculptor Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, who spent several months in the same place 110 years earlier. Far away from her husband and children, Carl-Nielsen showed that Archaic sculptures were originally painted in bright colours - a feat which meant defying Victorian gender roles and jeopardising her marriage. Sensuous and electric, yet admirably forensic in its approach to mineral life, Marble is a galvanizing novel about the materials life is made of, about korai and sponge diving, about looking and looking again, written in a spare and pellucid style. Praise for Marble Everything connects. In that Ali Smith/Isabel Waidner way, Amalie Smith manages to stuff a lot of topics in an economic way... Enriching and rewarding - The Bobsphere A resolute novel that, by virtue of its mix of literary suggestion, aesthetic experience and art historical insight, makes something that is simultaneously straightforwardly concrete and almost incomprehensibly abstract come alive - Jyllands-Posten Marble is not reminiscent of much else, but that does not make it odd. Just beautifully its own. It is made of the stuff art and literature is made of. In excess - Berlingske Amalie Smith brings marble to life - Politiken ♥♥♥♥ Admirably vivid - Information Marble is an artistically ambitious and original attempt at creating an open, hybrid and 'impure' strand of novel which integrates and supplements fiction with factual and documentary elements... Amalie Smith digs into the material with knowledge, sensuality, and aesthetic sensibility - Litteratursiden Marble is a novel about insisting on the significance of surfaces, about longing and absorption, about diving and becoming porous. The book thinks across disciplines and aesthetic genre conventions, and hence it is no coincidence that Amalie Smith is a practising artist as well as a writer - Vagant AMALIE SMITH (b. 1985) is a Danish writer and visual artist. A graduate from the Danish Academy of Creative Writing and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Smith has published eight hybrid books. She has received numerous awards for her work as an artist and writer, including the Danish Arts Foundation's prestigious three-year working grant, the Danish Crown Prince Couple's Rising Star Award, and the Bodil and Jørgen Munch-Christensen Prize for emerging writers. JENNIFER RUSSELL has published translations of Amalie Smith, Christel Wiinblad, and Peter-Clement Woetmann. She was the recipient of the 2019 Gulf Coast Prize for her translation of Ursula Scavenius's 'Birdland', and in 2020 she received an American-Scandinavian Foundation Award for her co-translation of Rakel Haslund-Gjerrild's All the Birds in the Sky.
Author : Anna M. V. Bowden
Publisher : Fortress Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781978710177
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Revelation and the Marble Economy of Roman Ephesus written by Anna M. V. Bowden and published by Fortress Academic. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an effort to demonstrate the (im)practicalities of John's command for withdrawal (18:4), this book reconstructs the marble economy of Roman Ephesus and reads Revelation through the daily lives of its workers. It concludes that John's call for zero cultural participation is utterly devastating for its workers.
Author : David Turner
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231542844
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Green Marble written by David Turner and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans have difficulty thinking at the global scale. Yet as we come to understand our planet as a single, interconnected, complex system and encounter compelling evidence of human impact on Earth’s climate and biosphere, the need for a truly global effort is increasingly urgent. In this concise and accessible text, David P. Turner presents an overview of global environmental change and a synthesis of research and ideas from the rapidly evolving fields of earth system science and sustainability science that is suitable for anyone interested in humanity’s current predicaments and what we can do about them. The Green Marble examines Earth’s past, contemporary human disruption, and the prospects for global environmental governance. Turner emphasizes the functioning of the biosphere—the totality of life on Earth—including its influence on geologic history, its sensitivity to human impacts, and its possible role in ameliorating climate change. Relying on models of the earth system that synthesize vast amounts of monitoring information and recent research on biophysical processes, The Green Marble describes a range of scenarios for our planetary home, exploring the effects of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and factors such as economic globalization. Turner juxtaposes cutting-edge ideas from both the geosciences and the social sciences to illustrate how humanity has arrived upon its current dangerous trajectory, and how we might pull back from the brink of civilization-challenging environmental change. Growing out of the author’s popular course on global environmental change, The Green Marble is accessible to non-science majors and provides a framework for understanding the complex relationship of humanity to the global environment.
Author : Suetonius
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780353373280
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (732 download)
Download or read book Divus Augustus written by Suetonius and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Alfred Michael Hirt
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199572879
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Imperial Mines and Quarries in the Roman World written by Alfred Michael Hirt and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The control over marble and metal resources was of major importance to the Roman Empire. Alfred Hirt's comprehensive study defines the organizational outlines and the internal structures of the mining and quarrying ventures under imperial control.
Author : John Bryan Ward-Perkins
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300052923
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Roman Imperial Architecture written by John Bryan Ward-Perkins and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Roman Imperial architecture is one of the interaction of two dominant themes: in Rome itself the emergence of a new architecture based on the use of a revolutionary new material, Roman concrete; and in the provinces, the development of interrelated but distinctive Romano-provicial schools. The metropolitan school, exemplified in the Pantheon, the Imperial Baths, and the apartment houses of Ostia, constitutes Rome's great original contribution. The role of the provinces ranged from the preservation of a lively Hellenistic tradition to the assimilation of ideas from the east and from the military frontiers. It was--finally--Late Roman architecture that transmitted the heritage of Greece and Rome to the medieval world.
Author : Rex Myers
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (866 download)
Download or read book Marble, Colorado written by Rex Myers and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anna Anguissola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108304923
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Supports in Roman Marble Sculpture written by Anna Anguissola and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figural and non-figural supports are a ubiquitous feature of Roman marble sculpture; they appear in sculptures ranging in size from miniature to colossal and of all levels of quality. At odds with modern ideas about beauty, completeness, and visual congruence, these elements, especially non-figural struts, have been dismissed by scholars as mere safeguards for production and transport. However, close examination of these features reveals the tastes and expectations of those who commissioned, bought, and displayed marble sculptures throughout the Mediterranean in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Drawing on a large body of examples, Greek and Latin literary sources, and modern theories of visual culture, this study constitutes the first comprehensive investigation of non-figural supports in Roman sculpture. The book overturns previous conceptions of Roman visual values and traditions and challenges our understanding of the Roman reception of Greek art.
Author : Edward M. Bounds
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1602065403
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Necessity of Prayer written by Edward M. Bounds and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prayer is not an incident or a performance but a passion of soul. It is not a want or half-needed desire but a sheer necessity.
Author : J. Nicholas Napoli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351174142
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Radical Marble written by J. Nicholas Napoli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marble is one of the great veins through the architectural tradition and fundamental building block of the Mediterranean world, from the Parthenon of mid-fifth century Athens, which was constructed of pentelic marble, to Justinian’s Hagia Sophia in Constantinople and the Renaissance and Baroque basilica of St. Peter’s in the Vatican. Scholarship has done much in recent years to reveal the ways and means of marble. The use of colored marbles in Roman imperial architecture has recently been the subject of a major exhibition and the medieval traditions of marble working have been studied in the context of family genealogies and social networks. In addition, architectural historians have revealed the meanings evoked by marble revetted and paved surfaces, from Heavenly Jerusalem to frozen water. The present volume builds upon the body of recent and emerging research - from antiquity to the present day - to embrace a global focus and address the more unusual (or at least unexpected) uses, meanings, and aesthetic appeal of marble. It presents instances where the use of marble has revolutionized architectural practice, suggested new meaning for the built environment, or defined a new aesthetic - moments where this well-known material has been put to radical use.
Author : Arnold Victor Coonin
Publisher : Florentine Press
ISBN 13 : 9788897696025
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (96 download)
Download or read book From Marble to Flesh written by Arnold Victor Coonin and published by Florentine Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the author. A. Victor Coonin is James F. Ruffin Chair of Art at Rhodes College. He has received fellowships and grants from the Mellon, Kress, and Fullbright foundations and has served on committees for the Fullbright, National Endowment for the Humanities, and College Art Association. Author of numerous articles and editor of 2 books, this is his first monograph. -- Publisher's website.
Author : George Edmund Street
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages written by George Edmund Street and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
