THE PORCELLINO, INTERVIEW FOR A BRAZILIAN TROUPE
A Brazilian troupe interviewed Ferdinando Marinelli and Emanuele Pecchioli in Fonderia on the history of the Porcellino del Tacca from ancient times to the present day.
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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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
THE RESTORATION OF THE CELESTIAL SPHERE BY PAUL MANSHIP OF THE UN PALACE IN GENEVA
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…
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…
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…
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.