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AGRA Heritage Walk - Trailer -    • Agra Heritage Tour - 1 min Teaser :) ...  
Shree Ji Mishthan Bhandar - Breakfast at Agra -    • Breakfast at Shree Ji Mishthan Bhanda...  
Agra Fort | Guided Tour - HINDI | Red Fort | Akbar Fort -    • Agra Fort FULL Tour in HINDI | Red Fo...  
Baby Taj - tomb of Itimad ud Daulah -    • Tomb of Itmad-ud-Daula | BABY TAJ | A...  
Mehtab Bagh (Black Taj Mahal) -    • Mehtab Bagh | Black Taj Mahal | Agra ...  
Bajrang Chaat Bhandar at Agra -    • Bajrang Chaat Bhandar - Street Food C...  
TAJ MAHAL -    • Taj Mahal FULL Tour in Hindi | Agra H...  
Pietra dura on Taj Mahal -    • Pietra dura Marble-inlay at Taj Mahal...  
Tomb of Mariam Zamani (Jodhabai / Harkha Bai / Heer Kunwari) -    • Tomb of Mariam-uz-Zamani - Jodha Bai ...  
Akbar's Tomb - Sikandara -    • The tomb of AKBAR - Sikandara | Agra ...  
The Red Taj - Hessing's Tomb -    • The Red Taj - Hessing's Tomb | Hindi ...  
Halwa Parantha -    • Halwa Parantha at Agra | Hindi | Agra...  
Dargah Abul Ula and Qawwali by Rafi Bharti Qawwal -    • Dargah Hazrat Syedna Shah Ameer Abul ...  

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Here's Part 7 of our new Heritage Tour series as we explore Agra :)

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(text from Wikipedia)

Pietra dura (Italian: [ˈpjɛːtra ˈduːra]) or pietre dure [ˈpjɛːtre ˈduːre] (see below), called parchin kari or parchinkari in the Indian Subcontinent, is a term for the inlay technique of using cut and fitted, highly polished colored stones to create images. It is considered a decorative art. The stonework, after the work is assembled loosely, is glued stone-by-stone to a substrate after having previously been "sliced and cut in different shape sections; and then assembled together so precisely that the contact between each section was practically invisible". Stability was achieved by grooving the undersides of the stones so that they interlocked, rather like a jigsaw puzzle, with everything held tautly in place by an encircling 'frame'. Many different colored stones, particularly marbles, were used, along with semiprecious, and even precious stones. It first appeared in Rome in the 16th century, reaching its full maturity in Florence. Pietra dura items are generally crafted on green, white or black marble base stones. Typically the resulting panel is completely flat, but some examples where the image is in low relief were made, taking the work more into the area of hardstone carving.