Términos

Lutes constructed so that the neck penetrates the sound box, having long thin necks and small bodies, usually covered with skin. The strings are normally lifted well above the neck by a high bridge. The form developed into "spike fiddles."

Partes de un ser humano o cuerpo de un animal que suministran apoyo y movilidad, como las dos extremidades inferiores del cuerpo humano. Para extremidades truncadas en una mano en lugar de un pie, use "brazo (componente animal o humano)."

Una ideología religiosa originalmente desarrollada dentro del Luteranismo en los siglos XVII y XVIII como un movimiento reformista y reacción en contra del dogmatismo rígido protestante. El pietismo enfatiza las buenas obras, el estudio de la Biblia, y la devoción. Influenció a otros movimientos e ideologías tales como el evangelicanismo, metodismo y los hermanos Moravios.

Bluish sandstone used as a building material; quarried near the towns of Oggiono and Sirone in Lombardy, Italy.

A creamy white or golden colored limestone dating from the Miocene period that is quarried in Lecce, a city in the Salento region of South East Italy.

Calcareous tufa stone used for building and sculptural decoration originating in quarries near the town of Mendicino in Calabria, Italy.

An easily worked yellow-brown fossiliferous limestone quarried in the Berici Hills south of Vicenza. It has been used since ancient times as a building and ornamental stone; the cathedral of Padua is a pietra di Nanto construction.

Variedad extremadamente dura de basalto de color negro profundo con pequeños toques de blanco moteado. Fue utilizada a menudo como basanita por los metalurgistas.

A durable, fossiliferous limestone quarried near Verona, Italy; used as a building material since ancient times.

Beige colored limestone used as a building and construction material quarried near town of San Lucido in province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy.

A red colored limestone quarried near Verona, Italy from the "Rosso Ammonitico Veronese" formation; used as a construction material in buildings and monuments.

Porous, fossiliferous limestone, yellowish white in color, quarried near Verona, Italy; used as a construction material.

Trabajo de incrustación en que piezas de piedra dura y pulida son puestas en mármol u otra superficie dura.

Inlaid works in which pieces of hard, polished stone have been set into marble or another hard surface; a Florentine specialty often used for decorative table tops and small wall panels. The singular form, "pietra dura," is used within Italy to refer to works incorporating a single type of stone; but outside Italy it refers to works using combinations of stones. Pietra dura works were carved in classical Rome, and the techniques for cutting such hard stones were revived in 16th-century Florence, where a workshop established under the patronage of Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici produced decorative panels; the workshop was refounded in 1588 as the Opificio delle Pietre Dure. The hardstones used are semi-precious stones, typically agate, chalcedony, jasper and lapis lazuli, but do not include marble or precious stones. Stones of the requisite hardness for such work generally fall between 6 and 10 on Mohs' scale of hardness, i.e. between orthoclase and diamond (lapis lazuli being the notable exception).

Artists or craftsmen who specialize in pietra dura works, which are inlaid works in which pieces of hard, polished stone have been set into marble or another hard surface.

Refers to several groups of greenschist found in the Italian Central Alps which contain carvable soapstone; much used in the Middle Ages as a material for the production of food preparation and storage vessels, and of stoves.

A honey-brown calcareous sandstone quarried in Fiesole and other locations in the vicinity of Florence, where it is used as a building stone. The Ponte Vecchio, Pitti Palace, and Palazzo Vecchio are all pietraforte constructions.