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Museo Dell'opifico
delle pietre dure
 The
museum was founded in 1588 by The Grand
Duke Ferdinando I, who established a workshop
to produce the rare or precious stones
for the decoration of the Chapel of Princes.
The current collection,
includes works in pietra dura and polychrome
marbles, works in scagliola (imitation
marble), paintings on stone, oil paintings
and work tools.
The museum is famous
for the Medicean coat of arms, a portrait
of Cosimo I in pietra dura dating to 1597,
an 18th-century model of the Chapel of
Princes, a work top with tools and floral
garlands made from pietra dura commesso
on a porphry base (1848).
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