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5. Homes Fit for Heroes: Luxury and Light from the Per a’a to the Domus
Fabio Barry
Description: Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the...
Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
Revetments in colored stones do not adorn palaces in Egypt before the Ptolemaic period (305–30 BC)...
Author
Fabio Barry
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2020 by Fabio Barry
Related print edition pages: pp.104-128
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00283.6
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22088
Chapter subject tags:Polychromy (Architecture)Architecture, Ancient--EgyptMarble in architectureFaienceSculpture, AncientAlexandria (Egypt)--HistoryMarble industry and tradeArchitecture, RomanMosaics, Roman

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5. Homes Fit for Heroes: Luxury and Light from the Per a’a to the Domus