Decorative Stone

The Complete Sourcebook

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Monica T. Price

Description

Decorative Stone: The Complete Sourcebook is a comprehensive identification guide that fills the gap between scholarly works on ancient marbles and the catalogues of the modern stone trade. Indispensable to reliable identification are high-quality images of stones coupled with meticulously researched, authoritative text.

This book draws on the extensive and reliably documented collections of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, which include the historic Corsi Collection of 1,000 different blocks of polished decorative stone used by the ancient Romans or quarried in Italy in the early nineteenth century, and other collections of historical and modern decorative stones from sites worldwide.

The stones are arranged into geological type, such as alabasters, serpentinites, porphyries and granites, and the large group of marbles and limestones is further subdivided according to dominant colours and markings. Named varieties are shown: the section on serpentinites, for example, covers verde antico, breccia Quintilina and verde ranocchia, which are significant in archaeology. The section includes samples from Greece, Italy, Great Britain, Ireland and the United States, where they are variously used for architecture, sculpture and carved ornaments.

This is an invaluable guide for everyone with an interest in the identification and use of decorative stone, including archaeologists, architects, artists, antique restorers, colleges and museums, the stone trade, and the enthusiastic amateur.

Additional information

Weight 1826 g
Dimensions 23.8 x 28.6 cm
Publisher name Thames and Hudson Ltd
Publication date 19 March 2007
Number of pages 288
Format Hardback
Dimensions 23.8 x 28.6 cm
Weight 1826 g

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Monica Price is on the curatorial staff of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. She has written widely on decorative rocks and mineralogical topics, and contributed entries to the Oxford Companion to the Earth and Pocket Nature: Rocks and Minerals.