Early-Mid 20th Century Italian Pietra Dura Box horse drawing with painstakingly hand-painted brick and

with painstakingly hand-painted brick and graphite details

Politician

with nicely detailed fur and tail

pure ferocity

Early-Mid 20th Century Italian Pietra Dura Box horse drawing with painstakingly hand-painted brick andI love pietra dura, which means hard stone in Italian, and refers to the creation of figurative cut stone mosaic work like this, which became popular as an Italian art form especially in Florence in the late 16th and 17th centuries. In my dreams I'd find a piece by early 20th c. master and innovator Giovanni Montelatici, who was significantly responsible for the revival of the art of pietra dura (look him up, his work is amazing!) Alas, this is not