{"id":7471,"date":"2013-09-25T12:04:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T18:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/?p=7471"},"modified":"2014-12-04T15:18:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T22:18:15","slug":"cortona-limestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/featured\/2013\/cortona-limestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortona Limestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our favorite stones, particularly for Mediterranean-style architecture, is\u00a0 Cortona Limestone.\u00a0 This buff- and gold-colored limestone re-creates the appearance of limestones quarried for centuries in Italy and France.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cortona Limestone\" href=\"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Cortona-Limestone-0289-large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7472\" alt=\"Cortona 0289 CR\" src=\"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/images\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Cortona-0289-CR.jpg?aoe=1&amp;q=100&amp;w=600&amp;h=415&amp;hash=35784a0c2443a87eb542c49843599ab9\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Cortona-0289-CR.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Cortona-0289-CR-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Cortona Limestone\" href=\"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Cortona-Limestone-0284-large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"479\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7473\" alt=\"Cortona 3 CR\" src=\"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/images\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Cortona-3-CR.jpg?aoe=1&amp;q=100&amp;w=350&amp;h=479&amp;hash=16e381208d59628392575294f00eb506\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Cortona-3-CR.jpg 350w, http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Cortona-3-CR-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>In addition to having a beautiful color range,\u00a0 Cortona Limestone is also comparatively easy for stone masons to saw and chisel into desired shapes.\u00a0 It can be cut into oversize quoins and can also be sawn into beautiful large lintels, mantles, hearths, and arch stones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cortona Limestone\" href=\"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Cortona-Limestone-1084-large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"367\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7474\" alt=\"Cortona 1084 CR\" src=\"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/images\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Cortona-1084-CR.jpg?aoe=1&amp;q=100&amp;w=600&amp;h=367&amp;hash=3321d689d8981750ebd86e3e73151f9f\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Cortona-1084-CR.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Cortona-1084-CR-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Close Up<\/span><\/strong><br \/>Looking at the Cortona Limestone through a magnifier, as shown below, reveals the numerous fossils that compose this stone. The fossils are what give Cortona Limestone its interesting texture. Click on the image to get a full-screen view.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cortona Limestone\" href=\"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Cortona-closeup1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7475\" alt=\"Cortona closeup 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/images\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Cortona-closeup-2.jpg?aoe=1&amp;q=100&amp;w=600&amp;h=400&amp;hash=bd83c7250708910e2b235aa8e017984a\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Cortona-closeup-2.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Cortona-closeup-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our favorite stones, particularly for Mediterranean-style architecture, is\u00a0 Cortona Limestone.\u00a0 This buff- and gold-colored limestone re-creates the appearance of limestones quarried for centuries&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-newsletter-archive"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7478,"href":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471\/revisions\/7478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}