Architecture With Colored Marble

Very few rocks have as many uses as marble.

Architecture with colored marble.

It has a very peculiar chromatism in which broken white and very fine light grey veins are punctually dotted with tiny amber and golden notes. This italian variety has lasted for centuries and is the protagonist of many relevant architectural projects dated in the period of classical rome the renaissance and the baroque. The temples that housed them were in color also. The crema valencia is a marble with cream tones and intricate white and red colored veins that run throughout the marble surface.

Architecture under shah jahan. Seeing these classic statues recreated in vivid colors seems gaudy and almost obscene to us today because we expect ancient greek statuary to bear that dignified blank white look. Not so to the greeks who thought of their gods in living color and portrayed them that way too. It is used for its optical properties in cosmetics paint and paper.

To us classical antiquity means white marble. It is a calcitic white marble. Historically color has always been seen as a status symbol and our collective tastes have definitely changed over the centuries. It is used for its beauty in architecture and sculpture.

At agra the tomb of itmad ud daula completed in 1628 was built entirely of white marble and decorated in elaborate pietra dura mosaic an inlay technique of using cut and fitted highly polished colored stones to create images. The properties of marble and its uses.