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Pietre dure : the art of semiprecious stonework

Title
Pietre dure : the art of semiprecious stonework / Annamaria Giusti ; [translated from the Italian by Fabio Barry].
Author
Giusti, Anna Maria.
Publication
Los Angeles : Getty Publications, 2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Barry, Fabio.
  • J. Paul Getty Museum.
Description
264 pages : color illustrations; 34 cm
Uniform Title
Arte delle pietre dure. English
Alternative Title
Arte delle pietre dure.
Subject
  • Stone inlaid furniture > Europe
  • Incrustation (Stone carving) > Europe
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-261) and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. The ancient splendour of coloured stones -- Ch. 2. The rebirth of polychrome inlay in the Roman renaissance -- Ch. 3. Medicean production in Florence -- Ch. 4. The fortunes of hardstone inlay in seventeenth-century Europe -- Ch. 5. Splendours of the Ancien Regime -- Ch. 6. From court display to Bourgeois luxury -- Ch. 7. How a Florentine mosaic is born.
ISBN
0892368497 (hbk.)
OCLC
  • ocm70250642
  • SCSB-5273697
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries