Porphyry, from a rock, and ideal material of the Roman Empire, and
purple, from the murex, gastropod mollusc: two origins, two natures, for
a unique colour used by man since two millenniums. Linked to
aristocratic prestige and imperial propaganda, the colour of porphyry
represented Lagids' royalty, Roman Empire's authority, and then Catholic
Church's power; the material was also the richest element of baroque
prosperity and neo-classic renaissance.
This book recounts the
history of porphyry, and studies its uses in art and architecture. It
includes a corpus of more than 1000 profiles of objects in porphyry,
half of them never published before.
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