Short description:

Ten authors offer novel accounts of the phenomenon of oil painting on stone surfaces in Northern and Southern Europe, from Sebastiano del Piombo?s invention at Rome in the sixteenth century to the material experimentation of later painters through the seventeenth century.

Long description:

Almost Eternal: Painting on Stone and Material Innovation in Early Modern Europe gathers together an international group of ten scholars, who offer a novel account of the phenomenon of oil painting on stone surfaces in Northern and Southern Europe. This technique was devised in Rome by Sebastiano del Piombo in the early sixteenth century and was practiced until the late seventeenth century. This phenomenon has attracted little attention previously: the volume therefore makes a significant and timely contribution to the field in the light of recent studies of materiality and the rise of technical Art History.
Contributors: Nadia Baadj, Piers Baker-Bates, Elena Calvillo, Ana Gonsalez Mozo, Anna Kim, Helen Langdon, Johanna Beate Lohff, Judith Mann, Christopher Nygren, Suzanne Wegmann, and Giulia Martina Weston.

Table of Contents:

Contents

Preface
 Judith Mann
Acknowledgments
 Piers Baker
-Bates
 Elena Calvillo
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors

Introduction
 Piers Baker
-Bates and Elena Calvillo

Part 1: Sebastiano del Piombo?s Invention and its Initial Influence

Part 2: Ars et Natura: The Poetics and Collecting of Paintings on Stone