Identification des Marbres - Identifying Marble, French book
This large hardcover book with 320 full color pages with great pictures is entirely dedicated to marble.
Reference work for the knowledge of marbles with more than 150 marbles presented, each marble is listed and its history is described.
The exceptional quality of Sylvie Barco's photographs facilitates the identification of marbles.
Used since Antiquity for architecture and sculpture, marble has also been used since Louis 14th for the ornamentation of cabinetmaking furniture. The great variety of its colors and the heterogeneous structure of its rock, however, make it difficult to identify the different types of marble, whether old or recent. To facilitate their recognition for appraisal or restoration purposes, this beautiful reference book offers more than 150 representative samples of the quarry from which they are extracted. A true marble bible, it highlights a wide variety of rock structures (breccias, morello cherries, concretions, veined marbles, brocatelles or crystalline) and shades of color, ranging from white marbles to black marbles, including pinks, greens and reds.
Contents:
- Preface by Marie-Anne Sire
- Introduction
- The formation of marble
- The origins of color in marble
- The history of extraction and transportation
- The use of marble by wood-workers and cabinet-makers
- Contemporary techniques and extraction techniques
- Marbres: the reds, the yellows, the violets, the greens, the whites, the polychromes, the blacks
- Index by alplabetical order
- Index by color and by country
The French texts are written by Jacques Dubary de Lassale.
Printed in 2020, this book is NEW and is 10 inches x 14 inches ( 25 cm x 35 cm )
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