Salzburg limestones - "royal marbles" in Poland and Lithuania
ENHaving presented the tradition and recent usage of the famous building and ornamental stones of Salzburg (Uhlir et al., 2010), that were widely used across Europe since ancient times, here we describe examples of their applications in a number of localities on the territory of the presentday Poland and Lithuania, mostly in XV and XVI c. These stones, especially the most popular red “marbles” (in fact, unmetamorphosed limestones) were used as decorative stones already in the Roman times to become really fashionable in the Middle Ages and reach their top fame in the Renaissance and Baroque periods and be in use with variable intensity up to the present. The Salzburg “marbles”, together with other famous Italian, Dutch and Hungarian “marbles”, had an extraordinary impact on small architecture and stone sculpture, in particular sepulchral art in Europe, for centuries. [Extract, p. 1]
