Shipping in USA $ 120. Pietra Dura, a Florentine art of the end of the 16th century, at the time of the Medici family, its promoters, is a term for using cut and fitted, highly polished colored stones to create images. The stonework is placed stone-by-stone to a base after being sliced and cut in different shape sections, and then assembled together so precisely that the contact between each section is practically invisible. Images in mosaic panels, caskets and tabletops, are often matched with a slate background, all characterized by an extraordinary matching of colors, lead these complex works to the creation of Florentine Pietra Dura.

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