STORYTIME, RADIO ITALIA 5 – INTERVIEW WITH FERDINANDO MARINELLI
Ferdinando Marinelli was interviewed during the Storytime broadcast on radio Italia 5. Watch the video
THE MARINELLI FOUNDRY ON UN TODAY
UN Today, the official magazine of the United Nations and UN International Public Officials and Employees, has published an article regarding the ongoing restoration of Paul Manship’s Celestial Sphere by the Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry of Florence. See also: the restoration of the Celestial Sphere
GOLD LEAF: DAVID OF THE MARINELLI FOUNDRY AT THE BARGELLO MUSEUM
In 2007 the Direction of the National Bargello Museum in Florence decided to restore the famous Renaissance bronze: the Donatello’s David. And chose to make the delicate work public by setting up the restoration site inside the large sculpture hall of the Museum (fig. 1-2-3). The patient cleaning work (fig. 4-5) has caused traces of…
MICHELANGELO DIVINO ARTISTA
On display in the exhibition that will close on February 14, 2021, the positive plaster moulds of the Pietà Bandini and the Angel holding candelabrum by Michelangelo. The plasters were taken from the negative casts that were made on the originals that the Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry keeps in its plaster casts library, and were…
UNESCO ICH
The Fountain of the Tritons, we restored, is a UNESCO ICH Symbol (Intangible Cultural Heritage) On March 7, 2017, the Maltese Parliament ratified the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, or ICH. Malta has recognised the importance of establishing consultative mechanisms to coordinate activities aimed at implementing the Convention and…
COLUMBUS AWARD 2020 FOR ART TO MARINELLI FOUNDRY
This year the awards ceremony of the XXXIX edition of the Columbus Award organized by the Rotary Club Firenze Est was held on 12 October at the monumental complex of Santa Maria Novella. The important award was born in the immediate postwar period on the initiative of the Municipality with the aim of representing the…
FLORENCE AND THE CASTING FROM THE ORIGINAL MOLDS
Massimiliano Soldani Benzi, a Florentine, in November 1703 wrote to Prince Johann Adam Andrea I of Liechtenstein: So much money is spent and so much blood is shed in the war, that one can much more willingly sacrifice some expenses, in works of this fate, which they serve for eternity. The prince had in fact…
Il Decamerone in Fonderia
The foundry chief since the time of Ferdinando Marinelli Sr. founder of the homonymous Artistic Foundry, was Miniato Miniati (fig. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 6) very special character. The work in the foundry for Miniato was a mission: he spent more time there than at home. Ferdinando Marinelli Sr. managed the Foundry in a…
A new Flower for Ana Tzarev
After the realization of the three replicas of the sculpture “Bird of Paradise” cast in bronze and painted in the colors and in the type of painting required, the Sculptor Ana Tzarev asked the Foundry Ferdinando Marinelli for the creation in bronze of another sculpture of the flower series, a giant poppy simply called “Poppy”. It is a very complex job. One of…
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY DONATION
The friends of Fonderia Marinelli, Susan and Ronald Welborn, have donated to the Texas Tech University, one of the largest university complexes in the State of Texas, four sculptures made from an original model by the Fonderia Artistica Ferdinando Marinelli: Apoxiomenos, Minerva Italica, Fiorenza e Poseidone.