An Italian pietra dura panel with a view of an interior in Palazzo del Podestà, attributed to Giovanni Scappini, Florence, circa 1875

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A related panel of an interior of Palazzo del Podestà (today the Bargello Museum) by Giovanni Scappini was presented at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia (illustrated in Lastrucci Collection, published in Anna Maria Massinelli, Painting in Stone: Modern Florentine Pietra Dura Mosaic, Florence, 2014, p. 85)