
2016, 210 pp., 350 ill. col., 70 ill. b/n
Hardback, 21,5 x 28 cm
ISBN: 9788891309976
ISSN: 2240-8347
It was Pliny who provided the longest and most detailed description of MVRRINA VASA:
Their size never exceeds that of a small table, and, in thickness, they rarely are so thick as the drinking cups mentioned above. Their brightness has no intensity, they are shiny rather than brilliant. But what is really valuable is the variety of colours, since their veins repeatedly turn purple, to snow-white and a third shade between the two, just as when the purple gets inflamed in a change of colour or the milk-white goes red. Some people appreciate above all their outlines and certain reflections in the colours, like those observed in the rainbow. Other people, on the other hand, like thicker veins - any transparency or lack of colour is considered an imperfection - as well as grains and warts that, just as in the human body, are not prominent, but are mostly flat. A certain worth can also ascribed to their smell.
(Naturalis Historia 37.21-2)
Contents:
Preface of Professor Renato Gnoli
Foreword of the Author
Murrina Vasa. English texts
Repertory of Murrina supellex. Murrina masterpieces from public and private collections
Murrina Vasa. Italian texts
Appendix - Glass imitations of Murrine vases
Index of names and sites
Bibliography
Prase: The Emperors' Emerald
Il Mamertino al Foro Romano
La Dépendance nella Villa dei Sette Bassi a Roma
Cluny, Jumièges, Montceaux-L'étoile and Paray-le-Monial
White, Black and Two-Tone
Il sepolcreto e Villa Gordiani
Campagne di scavo 1993-1996
Arquitectura militar en el Caribe (1689-1748)
Cambiamenti climatici, dissesto idrogeologico, degrado chimico ambientale
Il grande plastico di Pompei. Dal modello materico al modello digitale