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THE FARNESE HERCULES IS MOVED OUT

In our showroom, the Bazzanti Gallery in Florence, we moved the marble statue of the Farnese Hercules weighing approximately 6 tons. The enormous sculpture will be packaged and then shipped to Indonesia.

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SCULPTURE CAST BY THE MARINELLI FOUNDRY TO PRESIDENT MATTARELLA

On the occasion of the inauguration ceremony of the 2023/2024 academic year of the University of Florence and the centenary of the University, a sculpture called “The Chariot of Apollo” by Onofrio Pepe cast by the Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry of Florence was donated to the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella. Watch the video

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POSTHUMOUS ORIGINAL IN PURE SILVER

The collaboration between Fonderia Artistica Ferdinando Marinelli of Florence and Treasure Investments of Battle Ground, WA, USA continues. The Michelangelo Museum is enriched with new posthumous bronze castings taken from the collection of casts by Ferdinando Marinelli Jr. made on the originals. Particularly interesting is also the posthumous casting of a single example in silver…

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BRONCOS FOOTBALL CLUB – DENVER, CO.

We had the pleasure of hosting Annabel Bowlen in Florence; she came with her husband to visit the Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry where her father Patric Bowlen (Pat to friends), owner and president of the American football team “Broncos”, came several times to follow the work of the “Broncos Fountain” which he commissioned from the…

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MICHELANGELO IN SILVER

The Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry has begun an artistic collaboration with Treasure Investments, USA, where the museum of Michelangelo’s bronze works cast in Florence has been created. But equally interesting are the lost wax castings in silver: the Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry supplied the wax, obtained from casts made directly on the originals in the…

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MALTA AND THE “TRITONS FOUNTAIN” FASHION

The restoration of the wonderful “Tritons Fountain” in Valletta, Malta, has a very long and quite complex history: In January 1953 the Maltese Ministry of Public Works announced a competition for the design of a large fountain to be placed in the large square at the entrance to the city, also used as the terminus…

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A “PORCELLINO” FOR KASSEL

Since 1952 Kassel (Germany) has been a twin city of Florence, in Tuscany. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of this friendly European bond, a bronze posthumous first edition original of Tacca’s “Porcellino”, cast from the original cast in the Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry in Florence, has reached Florentin Platz in Kassel. The fountain…

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