attributed to Giovanni Battista Foggini / Jewelry Box / about 1700

attributed to Giovanni Battista Foggini
Jewelry Box
about 1700 - 1720
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Creator Name: Foggini, Giovanni Battista
Creator Qualifier: Attributed to
Creator Nationality: European; Southern European; Florentine
Creator Role: Designer
Creator Dates/Places: 1652 - 1755
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: attributed to Giovanni Battista Foggini
Title: Jewelry Box
View: front
Creation Start Date: 1700
Creation End Date: 1720
Creation Date: about 1700 - 1720
Object Type: Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Classification Term: Miscellaneous
Materials and Techniques: oak veneered with ebony, slate inlaid with lapis, agate, marble
Dimensions: H.13 3/4 x W.20 3/4 x D.17 in.
AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number: 86.85
Credit Line: Gift of Bruce B. Dayton
Rights: http://www.artsmia.org/restrictions.html
Context:

Pietre dure ("hard stones") describes inlay made from such brightly colored stones as lapis lazuli, agate, and jasper. Carefully cut, polished, and fitted together, these stones form intricate designs. Although practiced since antiquity, the art of pietre dure was revived during the late 1500s at the Medici workshop in Florence, which continues in operation today. In 1695, the sculptor and architect Giovanni Battista Foggini became director of the workshop and designed many pietre dure objects for Cosimo III de Medici to give as gifts to other members of the European nobility. Foggini's drawings for the floral panels on this jewelry box are in Florence at the Uffizi Gallery.

AMICA ID: MIA_.86.85
Component Measured: overall
Measurement Unit: in
AMICA Library Year: 1998
Media Metadata Rights: ?The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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