Marble Past, Monumental Present
by Greenhalgh, MichaelEdition: DVD
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-12-01
Publisher(s): Brill Academic Pub
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Summary
This survey and synthesis of the structural and decorative uses of Roman remains, particularly marble, throughout the mediaeval Mediterranean, deals with the Christian West - but also Byzantium and Islam, each the inheritor of much Roman territory. It includes a 5000-image DVD.
Author Biography
Michael Greenhalgh is Emeritus Professor of Art History at the Australian National University.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Ancient and Early Christian Europe and Byzantium | p. 33 |
| Quarrying, Transport and Preparation of Marble in the Middle Ages | p. 89 |
| Looted and Trophy Marble | p. 141 |
| The Marble Hit Parade: Marble Members by Type and Destination | p. 169 |
| Byzantium | p. 235 |
| Earlier Islam | p. 255 |
| King, Pope, Emir and Caliph: Europe and the Islamic Building-Boom | p. 327 |
| Italy and Sicily | p. 363 |
| Egypt, Later Syria and Seljuk and Ottoman Turkey | p. 447 |
| France and Christian Spain | p. 483 |
| Conclusion | p. 525 |
| Bibliography | p. 531 |
| General Index | p. 601 |
| Index of Marble | p. 615 |
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