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…
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…
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…
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…
For over a year the Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry has been dedicated to the restoration of Paul Manship’s Celestial Sphere Monument at the United Nations Palace in Geneva. The Opera, an Art Déco Masterpiece, is a symbol of dialogue and peace in the world, a bridge between past and present, which, in this very complicated…
Ferdinando Marinelli was interviewed during the Storytime broadcast on radio Italia 5. Watch the video
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
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…
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…
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…
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