(September 2007) On 21 September 2007 the inauguration of the Original Posthumous casting of Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry’s St. Matthew by Ghiberti was accompanied by a spectacular costume party organized by the City of Florence. The original bronze was moved to the Museum of Orsanmichele, on the first floor of the Gothic building.
(April 2011) In anticipation of the exhibition “Water, stone, fire. Bartolomeo Ammannati Sculptor“, held at the Bargello Museum in 2011, the Directorate of the Museum has commissioned the Marinelli Foundry the delicate execution of the mould on the fountain “for the Great Hall of Palazzo Vecchio”, with the intention to reconstruct the missing parts.…
(February 2007) The Artistic Foundry Ferdinando Marinelli enrolls in the Unione Imprese Storiche Italiane. The President Franco Torrini gives to Ferdinando Marinelli Jr. the plate of membership to the Organization.
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…
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