what is Petra dura ?
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Pietra dura or pietre dure called parchin kari or parchinkari in the Indian Subcontinent, is a term for the inlay technique of using cut and fitted, highly polished colored stones to create images like wood inlay wall art and marble wall panels etc. It is considered a decorative art.
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Pietra dura,in mosaic, any of several kinds of hard stone used in commesso mosaic work, an art that flourished in Florence particularly in the late 16th and 17th centuries and involved the fashioning of highly illusionistic pictures out of cut-to-shape pieces of coloured stone.
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