the Sacred rite of the opening of the Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican was repeated for the Jubilee of 2025. For this occasion, RAI TV interviewed Ferdinando Marinelli Jr. in Fonderia. The Door was modeled in 1949 by Vico Consorti, later called “Vico dell’uscio”. At Christmas of that year Ferdinando…
The Michelangelo e il Potere exhibition was held in Palazzo Vecchio, where the Marinelli Foundry made a very small contribution with a plaster positive, obtained from the model made on the original, of Michelangelo’s Candle Holder Angel, which he made for the Ark of San Domenico.
Making one of Michelangelo Buonarroti’s most important Masterpieces in the Foundry, the Moses, took months of work. But we are thrilled with the quality and faithfulness to the original achieved thanks to the casts owned by Ferdinando Marinelli Jr., made on the original by the founder of the Fonderia Artistica Ferdinando Marinelli, Ferdinando Marinelli Sr.…
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. Watch the Video
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.
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…
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