Opificio dell Pietre Dure

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The Opificio delle Pietre Dure, or “Semiprecious Stones Workshop”, is located at number 78 of the Via degli Alfani. This is an unusual and interesting site founded in 1588 by the Grand Duke Francesco I de Medici as an institution devoted to the art of creating compositions using marble and precious stones. The artisans of the workshop devoted three centuries to the decoration of palaces and churches, in particular the Medici memorial in the famous Chapel of the Princes at the Basilica di San Lorenzo. It was, in fact, the Medici who founded the tradition of pietre dure

Today these workshops are principally engaged in restoration. In addition, there is a small museum that houses the most representative works made by the Opificio since its foundation, as well as workbenches, 19th-century tools and a collection of vases and portraits.

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