Pietre dure : the art of semiprecious stonework / Annamaria Giusti ; [translated from the Italian by Fabio Barry].

Main entry:

Giusti, Anna Maria.

Title & Author:

Pietre dure : the art of semiprecious stonework / Annamaria Giusti ; [translated from the Italian by Fabio Barry].

Publication:

Los Angeles : Getty Publications, 2006.

Description:

264 pages : color illustrations ; 34 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-261) and index.
The ancient splendour of coloured stones -- The birth of polychrome inlay in Roman Renaissance -- Medicean production in Florence -- The fortunes of hardstone inlay in seventeenth-century Europe -- Splendours of the Ancien Régime -- From court display to bourgeois luxury -- How a Florentine mosaic is born.

Summary:

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 eighteenth century numerous royal workshops based on the Florentine model appeared across Europe, under the patronage of the Hapsburgs in Prague, Louis XIV in France, and Frederick II in Prussia. Anna Maria Giusti's richly illustrated book captures the beauty and craftsmanship of this ancient technique for "painting in stone."

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ISBN:

0892368497 (hbk.)
9780892368495 (hbk.)

Subject:

Stone inlaid furniture Europe.
Incrustation (Stone carving) Europe.
Meubles incrustés de pierres Europe.
Incrustation (Arts décoratifs) Europe.
21.97 decorative art: other.
Incrustation (Stone carving)
Stone inlaid furniture
Inlegwerk.
Gesteenten.
Mosaik.
Ädelstenar.
Europe

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History (form)

Added entries:

Barry, Fabio, translator.
Barry, Fabio
J. Paul Getty Museum.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 249092
Call No.: BIB 178664
Status: Available

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