Искусства и ремесла Средневековья

302 Arts апd C1·afts in tl1e Middle Ages

lt ,vas executed Ьу Maestro F1·ancesco Ferucci. The Medicean Maнsoleum in Floгence exhiЬits шagnificent specimens of this craft. In tЬе time of Feгdinand I. the a1·t was carried Ьу Florentines to India, where it "·as used in decorating some of tЬе palaces. Under Ferdinand II. Pietra Dura reached its climax, there being in Florence at this time а most noted Frenchman, Luigi Siries, who settled in Florence in 1722. Не refined the art Ьу ceasing to use the stone as а pigment in producing pictures, f..nd eш­ ploying it for the more legitimate pшposes of decora­ tion. Some of the laгge taЫes in the Pitti are his woгk. Flowers and shells on а porphyry g1·ound ,vere especially chaгacteгistic of Siries. There ,vas а faшous inlayer of taЫes, long before this time, named Antonio Leopardi, who lived fгош 1450 to 1525. The inlay of ,vood has bcen called шarquetry and in­ taгsia, and was пsed pгincipally on furniture and cl10ir stalls. Labarte givcs the origiп of tbls art in Italy to the t"·elfth ccntury. The Guild of Caгpente1·s in Florence Ьасl а branch of Intaгsiatшa \Yorkcщ which included all forms of inlay in ,vood. It is rcally more corгect to speak of intaгsia wЬen ,ve allude to early Italian work, the ,Yord being derived from " interserere," the Latin for " insert.;" ,vhile marquetry originates in France, mнch late1· 1 from " шarqueter, " to ma1k Italian ,vood iпlay began in Siena, ,vheгe опе Manuello is reported to have " r orked in the CatЬedral in 1259. Iпta1·sia ,Yas аlво made in Orтieto at this time. Vasari did not hold