(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…
(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.…
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…
(October 2013) The new film ‘Florence World Capital of Art and Handicrafts’ by Cinzia TH Torrini is now on-line. This work shows the passion, art, genius, history and creativity of a city and a country that celebrates Florence and the industriousness of its people, the history that made Florence into the great city it…
(October 2013) The opening of the exhibition “Bronze and Fire” at the exhibition space of the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles is only hours away. The Fonderia Artistica Ferdinando Marinelli, Firenze has enthusiastically accepted the invitation of the Italian Foreign Ministry via the good offices of Giuseppe Perrone, the Italian Consul General of Los…
(September 2013) The Fonderia Artistica Ferdinando Marinelli exhibits a bust at the Los Angeles Opera. In a few days, the bust executed by the Marinelli Foundry will be exhibited at the Los Angeles Opera on the occasion of the bicentenary of Giuseppe Verdi. 2013 is not only ‘The Year of Italian Culture in the U.S.A.”…
(June 2013) The director Cinzia TH Torrini has filmed a documentary at the Fonderia Marinelli and, for the first time, the Fonderia became a movie set. The magic of cinema and the fascination of bronze casting met on the set. The sculptors and artisans from the Fonderia were the actors of Torrini’s film. The director…
(June 2013) The inauguration this autumn of the monument by the artist Arto Tchakmakchian. The Fonderia Artistica Ferdinando Marinelli created the casting for this monument which will be erected at Laval in the Province of Quebec, Canada. In the next few days the bronze sculpture ‘Espoir’ (Hope) by the artist Arto Tchakmakchian, commissioned by the…
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