Pietre dure
Subtitle: the art of semiprecious stonework
By: Annamaria Giusti ; [translated from the Italian by Fabio Barry].
Contributors: Barry, Fabio.; J. Paul Getty Museum.
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780892368495
Subjects: Stone inlaid furniture -- Europe; Incrustation (Stone carving) -- Europe
Work titles: Arte delle pietre dure.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-261) and index.
Table of contents: title: The ancient splendour of coloured stones; title: The birth of polychrome inlay in Roman Renaissance; title: Medicean production in Florence; title: The fortunes of hardstone inlay in seventeenth-century Europe; title: Splendours of the Ancien Régime; title: From court display to bourgeois luxury; title: How a Florentine mosaic is born.