nero antico
English edit
Etymology edit
Italian, literally "black ancient".
Noun edit
nero antico (uncountable)
- (art) A beautiful black marble found in fragments among Ancient Roman ruins, and usually thought to have come from ancient Laconia.
- 1843, Jeremiah Donovan, Rome, Ancient and Modern: And Its Environs, volume 3, page 730:
- A table of red granite, above which is a relief in nero antico on a ground of lapislazzuli […]