Painting on stone in Rome in the sixteenth century

• Autores: Andrea Donati
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 165, Nº 1444, 2023 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Italian Art), págs. 738-753
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Initiated largely by Sebastiano del Piombo, there was a fashion in sixteenth-century Rome for paintings -often very large in size- on stone, usually slate or peperino. Having culminated in a series of works by Michelangelo's associate Marcello Venusti, the use of stone was abruptly abandoned by artists, probably because of its practical shortcomings