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Sedimentary Aesthetics: Painting on Stone and the Ecology of Early Modern Art

By Christopher J. Nygren
Hardcover
$75.00
By Christopher J. Nygren
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An unprecedented investigation of painting on stone in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy that considers the ecological and artistic forces that made the genre transformative

In 1530 the Venetian painter Sebastiano del Piombo (1485–1547) chose an unusual surface for a painting of Christ: a large hewn stone. Treating the stone as a portable canvas, Sebastiano created a work of art that his contemporaries viewed as “almost eternal” and initiated 150 years of a flourishing practice of pai...