Clothed Upon
The essay argues that Simon Warrack's Monumental, as Jonathan Buckley's review presents it, treats a mason's highest skill as belonging rather than technical mastery. Sacred stone belongs to a community of the living and the dead, and a good restorer adds to it without taking anything away. The key image is the eroded window mullion at Bete Mikael in Lalibela, which Warrack enclosed in matching stone instead of replacing, set against Venice's over-rebuilt Fontego dei Turchi.