Architecture With Colored Marble

Architecture under shah jahan.

Architecture with colored marble.

It is a calcitic white marble. 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. Very few rocks have as many uses as marble. Calacatta is a natural stone from italy.

Not so to the greeks who thought of their gods in living color and portrayed them that way too. The properties of marble and its uses. This detail allows this marble type to be used both indoors as well as outdoors. 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.

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. To us classical antiquity means white marble. It is used for its beauty in architecture and sculpture. The temples that housed them were in color also.

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. The crema valencia is a marble with cream tones and intricate white and red colored veins that run throughout the marble surface.