Bianco e giallo

Esquema

Getty AAT: Materials (matter)

Jerarquía

<materials by composition> > inorganic material > rock > metamorphic rock > marble (rock) > <marble by color or pattern> > variegated marble

Descripción

A white marble from Cappadocia, Turkey that has light yellow veins over which there are hair lines of a darker shade of yellow. It can be so highly polished that it can create a reflection like a mirror; for this reason the emperor Domitian supposedly had a corridor lined with it. Little or none remains from antiquity.

URI original del concepto

http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300011535

Otros términos

  • marble, phengites [en]
  • phengites marble [en]
  • bianco e giallo antico [it]