The Opificio delle Pietre Dure Museum audio guide is accessible free of charge from your smartphone with the izi.travel app . Simply scan the QR code available at the museum or click here :
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1 – SECTION 1 – The first grand dukes and the semiprecious stones
2 – The Dying Alexander’s head
3 – Portrait of Cosimo I de’ Medici
4 – Two panels with birds on a branch
5 – Panels with flower pots
7 – SECTION II – The Chapel of the Princes
9 – Panel with Elijah and the Angel
10 – Two panels with Tuscan landscapes
11 – Panel with laurel and olive wreath
12 – SECTION III – Hard stone flowers
13 – SECTION IV – The last Medici
15 – Panel with the allegory of Fame
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17 – Cabinet with naturalistic mosaics
18 – SECTION V – The hard stones workshop
19 – Workbench for carving
20 – Bench for the cutting of Florentine mosaics
21 – Realization steps of a Florentine mosaic
22 – The museum of the Opificio in the mid twentieth century: the revival of an ancient tradition
23 – SECTION VI – The Lorraine period
24 – Table with a wreath of roses and shells
25 – Allegory of Air and Water by Giuseppe Zocchi
27 – Porphyry tabletop with musical instrument and wreath
28 – Two Roman landscapes
29 – SECTION VII – Painting on stone
31 – SECTION VIII – The Opificio in the Post-Unification Period
32 – Room 1 – Table with flowers, fruit, birds and racemes
33 – Room 1 – Statue portraying Cimabue, by Paolo Ricci
34 – Statue portraying Dante, by Paolo Ricci
37 – Four samples of wall panels
39 – Room 3 – Liberated Italy
40 – Vase with flowers and animals
