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.…
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…
Ferdinando Marinelli was interviewed during the Storytime broadcast on radio Italia 5. Watch the video
UN Today, the official magazine of the United Nations and UN International Public Officials and Employees, has published an article regarding the ongoing restoration of Paul Manship’s Celestial Sphere by the Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry of Florence. See also: the restoration of the Celestial Sphere
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…
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…
The restoration works on the tritons’ fountain begin. See further pictures
The Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry created the model, from which the medal was taken, for the Casa Buonarroti and the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence, to commemorate the anniversary of the Master’s death.
Bazzanti Art Gallery, show room of Fonderia Artistica Ferdinando Marinelli, sponsors the exhibition at Casa Buonarroti curated by Dr. Marino Marini, and the catalogue publishing.
(1972) On the beautiful terrace of the Loggia dei Lanzi, next to the Uffizi, was placed a stone fountain with a bronze Posthumous Cast Originals of the Giambologna’s sculpture, realized by Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry, Morgante riding a marine “dragon”. The fountain was placed by the Lions Club Firenze, in memory of the social…
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