(September 2007) On 21 September 2007 the inauguration of the Original Posthumous casting of Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry’s St. Matthew by Ghiberti was accompanied by a spectacular costume party organized by the City of Florence. The original bronze was moved to the Museum of Orsanmichele, on the first floor of the Gothic building.
(November 2005) On November 4 th 2005 come in visit to the Marinelli Foundry the famous Art Historian John T. Spike, that appreciated the plaster moulds performed on the original ones to the beginnings of the ‘900. He is complimented for the fidelity and the high museum quality of the bronze posthumous first edition…
(November 2010) In November 2010, under the auspices of the Casa Buonarroti of Florence that hosted it, opened the exhibition of Michelangelo bronze sculptures, museum quality posthumous first edition originals of the Marinelli Foundry obtained from moulds taken on the originals.
(Septembre 2007) On 21 September 2007 the inauguration of the Original Posthumous casting of Marinelli’s St. Matthew by Ghiberti was accompanied by a spectacular costume party organized by the City of Florence. The original bronze was moved to the Museum of Orsanmichele, on the first floor of the Gothic building. San Matthew by…
(April 2011) In anticipation of the exhibition “Water, stone, fire. Bartolomeo Ammannati Sculptor“, held at the Bargello Museum in 2011, the Directorate of the Museum has commissioned the Marinelli Foundry the delicate execution of the mould on the fountain “for the Great Hall of Palazzo Vecchio”, with the intention to reconstruct the missing parts. The…
(August 2008) In the occasion of the exhibition “Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth,” at the SUArt Gallery of Syracuse (NY), the directorate of the University invited the Marinelli Foundry to exhibit, together with a collection of Michelangelo’s original documents, the high museum quality bronze posthumous first edition original of the famous Michelangelo’s Pieta.…
(April 25 – May 2 2004) The “Laboratory of Archaeometry and Experimental Archaeology on Antique Handcrafted Techniques” in Murlo, Siena, headed by Prof. Edilberto Formigli, sought the cooperation of the Marinelli Foundry to study the realization of ancient bronzes. The Marinelli Foundry participated by bringing in Murlo an high museum quality posthumous first edition…
Exceptional partnership between the City of Florence in Italy and Florence in Texas The High Quality Florentine Renaissance Bronze posthumous first edition originals will be on display from March 1, in the gardens of the “Vineyard at Florence”, one of the most renowned wine producers in Texas. The program takes place at a press…
(October 2013) Ferdinando Marinelli Jr. hands over the medal performed for the Year of Italian Culture in the United States to the United States Consul in Florence, Sarah Craddock Morrison. On the left, in the first photo, the President of the US Tuscany Association, Mr. Federico Frediani.
(November 2013) At a private function held at the residence of the Giuseppe Perrone, the Italian Consul General in Los Angeles, to coincide with the exhibition, ‘Bronze and Fire’, the Fonderia Artistica Ferdinando Marinelli, Florence presented major works. These included the bronze statue of the sitting figure of Mars (‘Ares Ludovisi’), four Posthumous Cast Originals…
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