Precious and semi-precious stones with bright and variegated colours were polished to acquire a dazzling splendour and inlaid in the pictorial mosaic surfaces of prestigious furniture from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Beginning in Rome and then Florence, there was a growing taste for pietre dure, later disseminated throughout Europe. This text illustrates the range of its uses in furniture and decoration and discuses the major centres of its production. The types, sources and characteristics of pietre dure complete this ...
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Precious and semi-precious stones with bright and variegated colours were polished to acquire a dazzling splendour and inlaid in the pictorial mosaic surfaces of prestigious furniture from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Beginning in Rome and then Florence, there was a growing taste for pietre dure, later disseminated throughout Europe. This text illustrates the range of its uses in furniture and decoration and discuses the major centres of its production. The types, sources and characteristics of pietre dure complete this exhaustive reference work.
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Add this copy of Pietra Dure. Hardstone in Furniture and Decorations to cart. $163.00, very good condition, Sold by Lawrence Jones rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Nobby Beach, QLD, AUSTRALIA, published 1992 by Philip Wilson Publishers..
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 4to. HEAVY. 311pp, index, bibliography, glossary, hundreds bw & col ills. Or black cloth in pictorial jacket. Very slight edge wear to jacket, prev owners stamp at rear. Details the history and various styles of pietre dure (hardstone) decoration and its use in furniture, whether as inlay or carvings. From the first state manufactury in Tuscany established in 1588, through its growth in other parts of Italy and spread to other areas of Europe. Exceptional reference.
