Two sculptor-geologists and the perception of marble in nineteenth-century Britain: Sir Francis Chantrey and William Brindley

IF 0.3 3区 艺术学 0 ART Sculpture Journal Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI:10.3828/sj.2021.30.2.10
M. Sullivan
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This article focuses on two British sculptors who straddled the worlds of practical geology and sculpture in the nineteenth century, and in particular how their work affected the scientific and popular understanding of marble. Francis Chantrey and William Brindley were both long-term members of the Geological Society of London and contributed practical understanding of stone to the development of the geological discourse on white and coloured decorative marbles. This article looks at Chantrey’s use of fossiliferous British ‘marbles’ and his role in the growing comprehension of Carrara marble as a metamorphosed limestone in the 1830s. The second part of the article deals with William Brindley’s discovery and popularization of coloured marbles from ancient quarries around the world, and the role of these stones in contemporary imperialist discourse.
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两位雕塑家兼地质学家和19世纪英国对大理石的认识:弗朗西斯·钱特雷爵士和威廉·布林德利
本文重点介绍了19世纪跨越实用地质学和雕塑界的两位英国雕塑家,特别是他们的作品如何影响了科学和大众对大理石的理解。弗朗西斯·钱特雷和威廉·布林德利都是伦敦地质学会的长期会员,他们对石头的实际理解为关于白色和彩色装饰大理石的地质学论述的发展做出了贡献。本文着眼于Chantrey对英国“大理石”化石的使用,以及他在19世纪30年代对卡拉拉大理石作为变质石灰岩的日益理解中的作用。文章的第二部分涉及威廉·布林德利在世界各地古代采石场发现和普及彩色大理石,以及这些石头在当代帝国主义话语中的作用。
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