We had still some time for sight seeing, and therefore proceeded towards the manufacture of "Pietre Dure" at the Belli Arti, having carried away from the Cappella an admiration of their beauty, which made us desire to see the work in progress.
By Moscardo[1646] with that of Pietre Ceraunie; who also figures it with three or four varieties.
Via degli Alfani, is the entrance into the Galleria dei Lavori in Pietre Dure, open from 10 to 3 daily.
The Italians call it pietre commesse, a sort of inlaying with stones, analogous to the fineering of cabinets in wood.
These pietre commesse are better calculated for cabinets, than for ornaments to great buildings, which ought to be large masses proportioned to the greatness of the edifice.
Pietre dure, works in commesso, or variegated stone, more particularly conducted at Florence, and sometimes with the minuteness of the mosaic worker, i.
Other examples are the Spur at Notre Dame de Lorette near Arras; the ridge north of Beausejour in Champagne; the Crete de Combres at Les Eparges on the Meuse; the Bois de Pietre on the Moselle; and Hartmannsweilerkopf in Alsace.
Eastward of Neuve Chapelle on the slope of the higher land is the Bois de Biez, and this with the hamlet of Pietre it was one of the British objectives to seize.
In the direction also of the Pietre road the 21st Brigade met with greatly superior opposition, and like the 25th could got get forward.
The cabinets decorated with pietre duri, which are frequently met with in Spain were of foreign make.
Objects of bronze of all kinds were made there in this classic style, and at the porcelain manufactory of Buen Retiro, where splendid tables were made of pietre dure, mounted in bronze.
It was at this time that the Royal Manufactory of Pietre Dure finished the restoration of the famous Tazza of porphyry--a most precious and rare object, which, from the time of Cosimo I.
The Germans had machine guns at a bridge over the river; and they had another post established a little farther up at the Pietre mill.
The Seventh Division was held by the line of the Des Layes, and the defense of the Pietre mill.
The attack of the Seventh Division against the Pietre Fort continued all the day of March 12, as did the attempt to take the Des Layes bridges from the Germans, who were valiantly defending their second line of trenches in the Bois du Biez.
From there was a great network of trenches which extended northwestward to the Pietre mill.
I haven't seen Jim Pietre in a month of Sundays, not since he was awarded that research fellowship with the museum.
It was about noon today when Jim Pietre called the office on the phone.
During the fighting round Pietre Mill on 12th March Private Barber, who was one of a grenade company, ran ahead of his fellows and threw bombs on the enemy with such effect that a large number of them at once surrendered.
All that day the 7th Division struggled to carry Pietre Mill, while the rest of the line attacked the bridges over the river and the German trenches in the wood.
On 12th March the 2nd Battalion of the Rifle Brigade was held up by entanglements near Pietre Mill, and was subjected to a heavy machine-gun fire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pietre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
