GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Pietra dura or pietre dure called parchin kari or parchinkari in the Indian Subcontinent, is a term for the inlay technique of using cut and fitted, highly polished colored stones to create images like wood inlay wall art and marble wall panels etc. It is considered a decorative art.

Detailed explanation-2: -pietra dura, (Italian: “hard stone”), in mosaic, any of several kinds of hard stone used in commesso mosaic work, an art that flourished in Florence particularly in the late 16th and 17th centuries and involved the fashioning of highly illusionistic pictures out of cut-to-shape pieces of coloured stone.

Detailed explanation-3: -Because pietra dura was associated with the work of lapidary craftsmen, many European jewellers started to incorporate the technique into their work. Some of the earliest jewellery pieces to be made using pietre dure were cameos and medallions, but the technique was also used to make caskets and jewellery boxes.