LIGOZZI, Jacopo
(b. 1547, Verona, d. 1627, Firenze)

Model for a pietre dure table top

1610s
Oil on paper, 78 x 88 cm
Museo dell'Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence

This oil painting is a full-scale model for one of the numerous table tops fashioned from semiprecious stones in the Grand Ducal Workshops founded by Ferdinando I de' Medici in 1588.