1st Edition

Building Stones of Milan and Lombardy Volume 2: Stones of Lombardy

By Roberto Bugini, Luisa Folli Copyright 2023
414 Pages 146 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

414 Pages 146 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Milan and Lombardy have played an important role in the Italian country since the Roman period. This importance is reflected also by the diffusion of stone architecture: a persisting trait of Milan architecture was the use of different stones in the same building. Milan lies in the middle of the alluvial plain of the Po, far from the stone quarries; some waterways were dug out in order to supply... Read more
1. Geology of Lombardy. 2. Stone quarrying, transporting and dressing in Milan and Lombardy. 3. Decay phenomena on building stones of Lombardy. 4. Stones from the province of Bergamo. 5. Stones from province of Brescia. 6. Stones of the province of Como and Lecco. 7. Stone from province of Pavia. 8. Stones from province of Sondrio. 9. Stones from the province of Varese. 10. Stones from Verbano-Cusio-Ossola. 11. Stones from Apulia. 12. Stones from Piedmont. 13. Stones of Friuli Venezia-Giulia. 14. Stones from Latium. 15. Stones from Liguria. 16. Stones of Trentino-Alto Adige. 17. Stones from the region Toscana. 18. Stones from Veneto. 19. Stones from Europe. 20. Coloured marbles (opus sectile, inlay). 21. Mortar and plaster. 22. Brick and Artificial stone. 23. Masonry. 24. Pavements. 25. Church Altars. 26. Monuments. 27. Funeral Chapels of Cimitero Monumentale. 28. Atlas of stones and their textures.

Biography

Roberto Bugini was born in Milan, Italy, in 1952. He graduated in Scienze Geologiche (geology), University of Milan, in 1976. Since 1983 he has been a researcher of CNR-ICVBC Istituto Conservazione Beni Culturali. He has been a lecturer in stone materials at the Scuola di Specializzazione in Archeologia – Università Cattolica di Milano, since 2009. His fields of interest are stones and mortars used in historic architecture with particular application to the territory of Lombardy (Italy).

Luisa Folli was born in Lodi in 1956. She graduated in Scienze Naturali (natural sciences), University of Milan, in 1990. Since 1991 Luisa has worked in the field of stone conservation and has been a teacher (Mineralogy and Petrography) at Scuola di Restauro ENAIP – Percorso quinquennale per Restauratori Beni Culturali (Botticino-Brescia) since 1995. Field of interest: scientific analyses on nature and decay of historic building materials. References: about 150 articles on books, journals and proceedings.