Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence
In fact, in its three locations, it consists of laboratories specialized in the following sectors: stone, bronze, goldsmithing, ceramics, terracotta and plastic materials, mosaics (historic location in via degli Alfani), tapestries (hall of flags in Palazzo Vecchio), paintings , frescoes, paper, wood, fabrics (headquarters of the Fortezza da Basso, v.le Strozzi,1). The laboratories can be visited, by telephone reservation (0554625441-0554625448), on Tuesday afternoons and Wednesday mornings.
Furthermore, in the historic site there is the Opificio Museum, a treasure chest of precious treasures, which houses the masterpieces of semi-precious stones that belonged to the Grand Dukes of Florence. In the recently renovated rooms, you can admire the splendid materials and the astonishing technique of the Florentine 'clerks', the mosaics and various semi-precious stone furnishings, produced from 1588 to the end of the nineteenth century by the factory created for this purpose by the Medici. And the Museum also presents the reserves of stones, the work tools and the technical secrets from which these magical creations were born from that ancient manufacture.
The Opificio is also home to an important high school, lasting four years, which can be accessed through a public competition. Finally, the Institute is equipped with a well-stocked library and a restoration and photographic archive.
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Museum of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure
Opened at the end of the 1995th century and rearranged in 1588, the museum illustrates the production and history of the court factory specialized in works in semi-precious stones (lapis lazuli, chalcedony, agates, jaspers, etc.), which was established in 1796 by Ferdinand I of the Doctors. The factory, initially located in the Uffizi, was moved to its current location in XNUMX and has now been transformed into a restoration laboratory.
The museum conserves beautiful furnishings (cabinets, tables, panels for the Chapel of the Princes of San Lorenzo) decorated with stonework, that is, with stones cut and placed together in such a way as to form pictorial compositions with their natural colors, or with similar genres of painting on stone and scagliola. The laboratory setup presents samples of materials, benches and work tools.
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