{"id":516,"count":3,"description":"Following\u00a0the\u00a0passion<\/span>\u00a0of the Medici (especially Francesco I) for\u00a0naturalistic\u00a0subjects, from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the end of the grand duchy the production of hard stone inlays was characterized by\u00a0flowered or fruited branches,\u00a0birds\u00a0and insects, variously\u00a0connected.\u00a0These widespread motives\u00a0had\u00a0somehow\u00a0become\u00a0the\u00a0trademark of the court workshop.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe compositions\u00a0were usually created with a black background,\u00a0in order to\u00a0enhance\u00a0the range of bright\u00a0colors\u00a0of the flowers and the plumage of the birds, and they were employed to decorate tabletops and\u00a0pieces of\u00a0furniture.\u00a0<\/span>These<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>kinds<\/span>\u00a0of panels were produced in large\u00a0quantity\u00a0in the workshop,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>various\u00a0series<\/span>\u00a0were created in advance to\u00a0shorten the time of design and realization of cabinets and other\u00a0pieces of\u00a0furniture.\u00a0<\/span>This is<\/span>\u00a0why many panels,\u00a0perhaps never\u00a0<\/span>even<\/span>\u00a0used, enrich the collection of the\u00a0Opificio,\u00a0exhibited\u00a0in these showcases.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nThese\u00a0subjects\u00a0were\u00a0<\/span>re-proposed<\/span>\u00a0many times without significant variations,\u00a0<\/span>except from\u00a0turning\u00a0the\u00a0model\u00a0on the other side<\/span>, as\u00a0you can see in the<\/span>\u00a0two panels with birds<\/span><\/b>,\u00a0<\/span>displayed<\/span>\u00a0in the first showcase.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nTo avoid excessive seriality,\u00a0stones with\u00a0various\u00a0hues were exploited\u00a0to reproduce apparently very similar artworks, actually very different\u00a0in the pictorial rendering.\u00a0A\u00a0skillful example of the representation of the same model with different stones\u00a0are\u00a0the\u00a0<\/span>two panels with\u00a0<\/span><\/b>a<\/span><\/b>\u00a0sunflower<\/span><\/b>, made in 1664 following the prototype by Girolamo\u00a0della\u00a0Valle.\u00a0They\u00a0were\u00a0created\u00a0using two different classes of stones, hard\u00a0stones\u00a0and calcareous, also named \u201csoft stones\u201d.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe panel made with soft stones seems to\u00a0be\u00a0more successful,\u00a0due to the shades of the Arno jaspers, that\u00a0enlight\u00a0the corolla of the flower, in\u00a0strong contrast\u00a0to the green leaves.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nOn the right, above the showcases,\u00a0you can enjoy\u00a0a\u00a0<\/span>series<\/span>\u00a0of oil paintings on canvas by the Florentine painter Giuseppe Zocchi. 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