Pietre Dure

Produced in Florence in the mid-20th century, the box reflects the city’s celebrated tradition of pietre dure and hardstone craftsmanship. The precisely cut body features clean, cant...

Designed by Renato Salimbeni in 1953 and made in Florence at the Salimbeni company headquarters, entirely handcrafted by skilled craftsmen working both metal and semiprecious stone, ...

Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1973 and made in Florence in a unique example of this size, at the Salimbeni company headquarters, entirely handcrafted by skilled craftsmen working b...

Where Florentine workshops developed the polychrome inlay of the commesso di pietre dure, Venetian pietrari excelled in monolithic carving: drawing a complete form from a single bloc...

Compare this example with those preserved in the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, with the Roman chess board from between 1565 and 1590 from the National Museum of Decorative ...

Highly skilled stonemasons created intricate and accomplished designs often using semi-precious stones and imported marbles, drawing their inspiration from Florentine Pietre Dure.

This comparison concerns the visual language rather than technique: Blow’s Montici works were principally executed in the Florentine pietre dure tradition, whereas this panel is cons...

Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1975 and produced in Florence in several specimens in the Salimbeni company headquarters with manual processing by talented artisan artists also expe...

Compare works preserved in important collections: those preserved in the Museo Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, the table in the Museo del Prado in Madrid by Francesco Ghinghi...

., hand-marbled paper), woodworking, and stone inlay (pietre dure). Traditional techniques: Methods often include gilding, fresco painting, wood carving, and the creation of custom, ...

The present example inherits all this tradition: compare with the table realized by Francesco Ghinghi in the Real Laboratory Delle Piedre Dure of Naples (number of catalog O00511) a...

Measures: Height 33in, 84cm Width 60in; 152.5 cm Depth 361/2in, 92.5 cm Provenance: Oberton Hall: “The Grecian-black marble top, with its ribbon-banded tablet and polychr...

Nel complesso, il manufatto costituisce un'eloquente testimonianza dell'abilità artigianale italiana, che seppe adattare le tecniche tradizionali dell'intarsio di pietre dure a una p...

Compare the present panel with other masterpieces: the "Board of the Duke of Osuna" (O00501) made in 1614 and conserved in the Prado Museum of Madrid has a band to the exterior that ...

This institution developed into what is now known as the Opificio delle Pietre Dure. Its craftsmen specialized in commesso di pietre dure, in which sections of colored marble and har...

We also know that Pope Pius IX (1792-1878) offered to Princess Eugenie (1826-1920) a pietre dure table by Raffaelli, now preserved in the Hotel Matignon, further testimony that the m...

We also know that Pope Pius IX (1792-1878) offered to Princess Eugenie (1826-1920) a pietre dure table by Raffaelli, now preserved in the Hotel Matignon, further testimony that the m...

Although the workshops are today most famous for their extraordinary pietre dure and hardstone work, their production was by no means limited to stone inlay.

Reference: • La Pittura su Pietra, Florence 1970 (M Chiarini) • Museo dell’Opificio delle Pietre Dure of Florence (A. Pampaloni Martelli) • La scritture delle pietre, (Roger Ca...

Teresa degli Studi, illustrated in A.M. Giusti, Pietre Dure, London, 1992, p.225, fig.82. The survival of the present top with its large dimensions and intact arrangement of both geo...