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CONTENTS 6 Preface 12 Overview 12 Layout of the Printed Book 13 The World Wide Web 14 The DVD 14 Acknowledgments 18 PART ONE SETTING THE SCENE 20 Chapter One Introduction 22 The Mediterranean: a lake surrounded by marble 22 New marble architecture from prestige materials 29 Population increase, laziness, cost-accounting and building with antiquities 34 Knowledge and utility of the past 36 Evidence, documentation and the search for meaning(s) 39 Religious and secular uses of marble 44 But what is marble? 45 Geographical and chronological span of this book, and its layout 48 Chapter Two Ancient and Early Christian Europe and Byzantium 52 The City of Rome from Augustus to Constantine 52 Marble in the later Empire 58 "Beautiful new monuments replace ugly ruins" 62 The Transformation of the Ancient World 69 Marble in Early Christian Italy 71 Byzantium 86 Marble new and re-used, colonnades and colour 88 Constantinople 90 Ravenna 98 Conclusion: marble and pilgrimage 100 PART TWO LOGISTICS AND FASHIONS 106 Chapter Three Quarrying, Transport and Preparation of Marble in the Middle Ages 108 Introduction 108 Quarrying in the Middle Ages: the outline argument 109 Evidence for mediaeval quarryi

Author

Greenhalgh, Michael.

Published

2009

Language

EN