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Pietra dura refers to the technique of using colored hard stones to create intricate designs in decorative artwork, particularly in marble. It involves cutting the stones into precise shapes and fitting them together to form a picture or pattern. This technique originated in Italy and was popular during the Renaissance and Baroque periods
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  • A decorative art, the inlay technique of using cut and fitted, highly polished colored stones to create images.

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The decoration of the walls is pietra dura.
See pietra dura for more on the distinction.
Sumptuous objects in marble and pietra dura.
The pietra dura is a technique of lapidary marquetry for decoration.
Flowers and fruits in pietra dura.
The pietra dura is therefore an art technique of lapidary marquetry.
They are pietra dura here.
Pietra Dura serving as a set at the top of the iwans.
Below that is a parapet set with pietra dura lozenges.
Framed pietra dura plaque portraying a boy reading the paper.
Musamman Burj is famous for its unique ornamentation especially for the awesome pietra dura work.
This representation is in pietra dura alternating with the river anemone.
Pietra dura items are generally crafted on green, white or black marble base stones.
Columbine is particularly stylized on the pietra dura decorating the Taj Mahal.
You can see Pietra Dura inlaid marblework actually being worked on.

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The calligraphic inlays were made in the same way as the flowers, in pietra dura.
Damaged yet intricate pietra dura inlay work at Chini Ka Rauza Interior view.
These strips were completed in Florentine mosaic, also called pietra dura.
The works in pietra dura often represent floral motifs, plants, or natural settings.
The main altar was made of marble and pietra dura in the 17th century.
This too has pietra dura art form on the marble walls, inlaid with precious stones.
In the photo, it is, of course, the pietra dura.
This tomb was the first to use pietra dura style decoration with semi-precious stones.
The works of Pietra Dura often represents plants, floral motifs or natural settings.
Close-up of pietra dura detail.
Flowers in pietra dura but also engraved in marble ( mausoleum ).
They also often added pietra dura inlay to the surrounds, using marble and semi-precious stones.
Flowers in pietra dura ( mausoleum ) and engraved in the red sandstone ( mosque ).
In India, pietra dura was known as parchin karl, literally “ encrustation ”.
Flowers in pietra dura ( in the mausoleum ), and red sandstone relief ( In the mosque ).
Florentine pietra dura panel created by Giovanni Montelatici in the late 1800s.

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