pietra

A formal square chapel, with walls partly encrusted with whitish marble, supported by two tiers of Corinthian pilasters of that cold grey stone called pietra dura, and pierced with doors and windows arranged in the same tame, flat style.

The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

In Lecce, balconies adorned in wrought iron hug narrow streets; the facades of churches are decorated with images of saints and beasts, fluted columns and baroque evocations hewn in the soft, yellowish rock known as pietra leccese.

Puglia's Fiery Pizzica Joel Weickgenant 2010

Here is a table of a most beautiful material, called pietra dura, which took one hundred and twenty years to finish, and came from

The World's Fair Anonymous

She is framed by an arched niche made from grey pietra serena.

Bronzino's Medici portraits – review James Hall 2010

The cross in Bronzino's picture is set starkly, like Lucrezia, before an arched pietra serena niche.

Bronzino's Medici portraits – review James Hall 2010

When she had thought about the color scheme for this pietra dura inlay, Mehrunnisa had spread out chips of semiprecious stones on the carpet in front of her and pondered for a long time.

Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

A lone diya cast its thin light around the room made fully of marble—the walls, the ceiling, the floor, all embellished in the same pietra dura inlay that the outside baithak boasted.

Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

When she had thought about the color scheme for this pietra dura inlay, Mehrunnisa had spread out chips of semiprecious stones on the carpet in front of her and pondered for a long time.

Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

Inside, she had created a series of corridors, one after the other, leading to the heart of the building—a white-marble-paved room set with exquisite pietra dura inlay of agates, sard, jade, and cornelian, gleaming marble walls, and a raised cenotaph in the center.

Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

A lone diya cast its thin light around the room made fully of marble—the walls, the ceiling, the floor, all embellished in the same pietra dura inlay that the outside baithak boasted.

Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010