Sedimentary Aesthetics: Painting on Stone and the Ecology of Early Modern Art Publisher / Upswell Publishing Raised in the Melbourne suburb

Raised in the Melbourne suburb of Elwood and then drawn to the tropics

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Sedimentary Aesthetics: Painting on Stone and the Ecology of Early Modern Art Publisher / Upswell Publishing Raised in the Melbourne suburbAn 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 (14851547) 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