In the marble tradition there are different artistic sculptural techniques to realize and embellish a work.
These methods are grouped by two main categories, even if in some cases they can be confused with one another because the differences are minimal: techniques of manufacturing and...
Read more
The lion of butter and the ecstasy of Venetian nobles in the Giovanni Falier’s villa.
Antonio Canova, during a dinner with Venetian nobles, guests of the senator Giovanni Falier in Asolo, had the occasion to express his talent and inclination for the beautiful. For him it...
Read more
In 1291 pope Niccolò IV commissioned to the sculptor Arnolfo di Cambio the first inanimate nativity scene of the history in order to give prominence to the relic of the manger and to celebrate the Greccio Nativity scene.
The term nativity scene derives in fact from...
Read more
Very often we can read in the news section about disputes concerning construction works executed using poor materials, unsuitable for the required use; for example, marbles with a big capacity of absorption should not be used in external walls, as through the slow humidity absorption...
Read more
Talking about Carrara marbles we refer to all marbles coming from Carrara. The most important extraction and manufacturing area is that of Apuan Alps that boasts a primacy at national and worldwide level for the selection and the productive marbles ability. Over the centuries, were...
Read more
Italy’s luck is having been the beating heart of the Roman culture, a civilization that throughout its one thousand and two hundred years of history conquered the Mediterranean and all countries on it overlooking.
Ancient Romans’ luck was to have conquered the civilisation with the highest culture: the Greeks.
What’s...
Read more
Marbles from Istria to Venice.
My origin is in Istria, a wonderful land that borders the Alpine chain with an expanse of endless hills where my family owned some quarries. In that area, washed by the Quieto River, we had our quarries of the Roman era; they...
Read more
