PROVENANCE AND PETROGRAPHICAL PROBLEMS OF THE BUILDING AND ORNAMENTAL STONE MATERIALS OF HUNGARIAN RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE

Abstract

The paper summarizes the probable motivations in choosing building stones of art monuments and surveys the history of stone utilization. It deals with the characteristics of stone utilization of the Renaissance period by surveying geologically the most important build- ing stones used in this period (compact red limestone, marls of the Buda region, marble, coarse limestone, fresh water limestone, sandstone). It analyses in detail the petrographic and geolog- ical data of the recently recognized stone material, the marl of Buda.