Ruin Marble (opens in new tab)

Somehow the English "ruin marble" name seems much dismissive, the Italian is "pietra paesina", where the paesina has the same root of paesaggi=landscapes.

Here is a gallery of pictures:

https://www.pietrapaesina.com/eng/photogallery.html

And some details:

https://www.pietrapaesina.com/eng/pietra_paesina_firenze.htm...

That has a lot of…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruin_value

> Ruin marble is a kind of limestone or marble that contains light and dark patterns.

The HN crowd frowns on dark patterns, do they not?

Reminds me of Landscape Jasper.