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- Title Pietre Dure: The Art of Semiprecious Stonework
- Author Annamaria Giusti
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First UK edition
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Date June 12, 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780892368495 / 0892368497
- Weight 5.26 lbs (2.39 kg)
- Dimensions 13.25 x 10.25 x 1.1 in (33.66 x 26.04 x 2.79 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Incrustation (Stone carving) - Europe, Stone inlaid furniture - Italy - Florence
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006922860
- Dewey Decimal Code 738.560
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Pietre Dure (Italian for "hard stone") is mosaic design made from semiprecious stones. This comprehensive survey looks at the uses of decorative stonework and the variety of techniques used to produce it from prehistory to the present day, focusing especially on the period from its rebirth in sixteenth-century Rome through the developments of the nineteenth century.The history of pietre dure in the modern era began in Rome in the 1500s where, thanks to patrons' commissions, new techniques and new types of designs appeared, intended for interior and furniture decoration. These innovations spread throughout Italy in the seventeenth century, producing the most spectacular period in the history of pietre dure in Florence under the Medici. In the… Read More
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Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. New in publisher's shrink wrap (partially). Folio. 264pp. Original black cloth with blind-stamped lettering on spine, in original color-illustrated dustjacket, white lettering on spine. Glossy orange endpapers. Color frontispieces. "From the ancient history of decorative stonework comes a very special artistic phenomenon, and this richly illustrated, large-format volume tells its fascinating story. The phenomenon is is pietre dure, or polychrome hardstone marquetry, which resurfaced in Rome in the sixteenth century during the artistic flowering of the Italian Renaissance. Rome, where art took its inspiration from the cult of antiquity, fell in love with the evocative power of hardstones such as verde antico from Thessaly, breccia from the island of Skyros, and imperial porphyry. The stones decorated table tops, were inlaid into delicate floral panels, and shone from ovals of opalescent alabaster." (Publisher). Extraordinary volume…
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Museum Publications. New. 2006. Hardcover. 0892368497 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Pietre dure (Italian for "hard stone") is a mosaic design made from semiprecious stones. This comprehensive survey looks at the uses of decorative stonework and the variety of techniques used to produce it from prehistory to the present day, focusing especially on the period from its rebirth in sixteenth-century Rome through the developments of the nineteenth century. The history of pietre dure in the modern era began in Rome in the 1500s where, thanks to patrons' commissions, new techniques and new types of designs appeared, intended for interior and furniture decoration. These innovations spread throughout Italy in the seventeenth century, producing the most spectacular period in the history of pietre dure in Florence under the Medici. In the eighteenth century numerous royal workshops based on…
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