Marble Past, Monumental Present

Marble Past, Monumental Present
Author: Michael Greenhalgh
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 653
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004170839

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.