Porphyry
Red Imperial Porphyry. Power and Religion
Imperial porphyry, the greatest symbol of religious power
This volume presents the largest number of artefacts ever assembled and traces, by the stages which two symbols in widely different materials became intimately linked: purple dye, which is transfigured from the living body of rock snails into a colour and porphyry, whose inanimate objectivity as a rare stone is converted into the immortal essence of the figure it is called to embody
Author: Dario Del Bufalo
2018, Cartonato con sovraccoperta, 336pp., 1000ill.
ISBN: 9788842224280
€ 130,00