{"id":26432,"date":"2025-05-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/areademo.beculture.it\/?p=26432"},"modified":"2025-04-24T08:46:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T06:46:31","slug":"fonderia-artistica-marinelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/areademo.beculture.it\/en\/fonderia-artistica-marinelli\/","title":{"rendered":"Florentine high craftsmanship: the historic Fonderia artistica Marinell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The story of the Fonderia Artistica Marinelli spans many years, built on ancient expertise and family traditions, where art and the highest Florentine craftsmanship merge to create one-of-a-kind works<\/strong> to admire and collect.We spoke with its owner, Ferdinando Marinelli<\/strong> – grandson and namesake of the historic founder – to learn more about the foundry\u2019s work, which still relies today on the fascinating 16th<\/sup> century technique of lost-wax bronze casting<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is an artistic foundry and how does it work?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the Fonderia Artistica Marinelli, bronze sculptures<\/strong> are produced either from other sculptors\u2019 designs or casts of existing artworks. These can be monuments, furnishings, or scaled-down reproductions, all carried out with skill and expertise by the factory\u2019s master artisans.
\u201cIn the early 1900s, when the Fonderia was established\u201d, Ferdinando Marinelli told us, \u201cthe lost-wax casting techniques were still the same as those used in the Renaissance\u201d. Over time, production methods have evolved, but the Florentine foundry chose to keep the traditional approach, \u201cbecause trials with faster modern techniques have resulted in a much lower artistic quality\u201d.
It is precisely this excellent artistic quality<\/strong> that enabled the Fondazione Marinelli to gain international recognition and secure prestigious commissions from around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n