Pictorial stones
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"The Augsburg merchant Philipp Hainhofer was a specialist in works like these, and included fine examples of decorated stones in the cabinets he supplied to Philip II, the duke of Pomerania, and to Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. In the latter cabinet were a maritime battle scene painted on marble, after a design by Jacques Callot: and a pair of remarkable paintings on agate by one Johann König (1586-1635). A detail from one of these ‘The Last Judgement’ is shown below. Click on it to see a larger detail, or click here to see a black-and-white image of the piece almost in full. The Augsburg cabinet sent to Gustavus Adolphus, is, remarkably, still largely complete, and its contents are on display at the Museum Gustavianum in Uppsala."--Il Giornale NuovoPictorial stones |
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Pierres à images (also called in French « pierres imagées » or « pierres figurées », most common English translation pictorial stones) are, according to the French writer Roger Caillois, curious stones, non-precious, of different categories which appear to constitute veritable works of art, figurative or abstract. They are called dream stones in China.
See also
- Pietre dure
- Pareidolia
- Stone
- Suiseki
- Roger Caillois and pictorial stones
- Claude Boullé
- The Japanese Art of Miniature Landscape Stones, par Felix G. Rivera
- Patterns in nature
- Pictorial stones, Il Giornale Nuovo