pietra commessan.

Brit.

/ˌpjɛtrə kɒˈmɛsə/, U.S.

/ˌpieɪtrə kəˈmɛsə/

Inflections: Plural pietre commesse.

Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian pietra commessa.

Etymology: < Italian pietra commessa (apparently not recorded in Italian dictionaries) < pietra stone (early 13th cent.; < classical Latin petra rock, stone: see petro- comb. form¹) + commessa , feminine of commesso , past participle of commettere to fit together ( < classical Latin committere commit v.).Not fully naturalized in English.

Now rare.

Mosaic work of a type developed in Florence in the late 16th cent., consisting of thin pieces of coloured semi-precious stones cut to shape and inlaid in marble to produce decorative designs and pictures; Florentine mosaic; an example of this.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > mosaic > [noun]

mosaicc1540

mosaical work1604

mosaic work1606

musive1622

pietra commessac1660

pietra dura1730

tessellation1813

Cosmati1927

c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 191 Here were divers incomparable tables of Pietra Commessa, which is a marble ground inlayd with severall sorts of marbles & stones of divers colours, in the shapes of flowers, trees, beasts, birds & Landskips like the natural.

1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 220 A curious table of pietre commesse about 12 foot long & 5 wide.

1766 T. Smollett Trav. France & Italy II. xxviii. 70 These pietre commesse are better calculated for cabinets, than for ornaments to great buildings.

1800 J. Dallaway Anecd. Arts Eng. 495 At St. John's is a copy of Raffaelle's St. John in the Wilderness in Florentine ‘pietre commesse’.

1848 H. R. Forster Stowe Catal. 287 A box, with slabs of pietre commesse, of birds, fruits, and flowers.

1936 Rev. Eng. Stud. 12 275 Some pietre commesse, or inlaid marbles (characteristic of Benlowes' love of unusual ornaments and unusual forms of art).

1959 T. S. R. Boase Eng. Art 1800–1870 i. 26 An inlaid table of pietre commesse, 9 feet long, from the Borghese Palace.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pietra commessa
释义	pietra commessan. Brit. /ˌpjɛtrə kɒˈmɛsə/, U.S. /ˌpieɪtrə kəˈmɛsə/ Inflections: Plural pietre commesse. Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian pietra commessa. Etymology: < Italian pietra commessa (apparently not recorded in Italian dictionaries) < pietra stone (early 13th cent.; < classical Latin petra rock, stone: see petro- comb. form¹) + commessa , feminine of commesso , past participle of commettere to fit together ( < classical Latin committere commit v.).Not fully naturalized in English. Now rare. Mosaic work of a type developed in Florence in the late 16th cent., consisting of thin pieces of coloured semi-precious stones cut to shape and inlaid in marble to produce decorative designs and pictures; Florentine mosaic; an example of this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > mosaic > [noun] mosaicc1540 mosaical work1604 mosaic work1606 musive1622 pietra commessac1660 pietra dura1730 tessellation1813 Cosmati1927 c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 191 Here were divers incomparable tables of Pietra Commessa, which is a marble ground inlayd with severall sorts of marbles & stones of divers colours, in the shapes of flowers, trees, beasts, birds & Landskips like the natural. 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 220 A curious table of pietre commesse about 12 foot long & 5 wide. 1766 T. Smollett Trav. France & Italy II. xxviii. 70 These pietre commesse are better calculated for cabinets, than for ornaments to great buildings. 1800 J. Dallaway Anecd. Arts Eng. 495 At St. John's is a copy of Raffaelle's St. John in the Wilderness in Florentine ‘pietre commesse’. 1848 H. R. Forster Stowe Catal. 287 A box, with slabs of pietre commesse, of birds, fruits, and flowers. 1936 Rev. Eng. Stud. 12 275 Some pietre commesse, or inlaid marbles (characteristic of Benlowes' love of unusual ornaments and unusual forms of art). 1959 T. S. R. Boase Eng. Art 1800–1870 i. 26 An inlaid table of pietre commesse, 9 feet long, from the Borghese Palace. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1660
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