FLORENTINE MOSAIC ARTIST and FLORENTINE MOSAIC MASTERS

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FLORENTINE MOSAIC ARTIST: The traditional Florentine technique of stone mosaics was born as a result of Lorenzo De' Medici's love of precious stones during the 1500's. florentine mosaic artist and Florentine Mosaic masters In 1558 his descendant Ferdinando founded the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, the laboratory of precious and semi-precious stones.

Throughout the centuries this workshop has produced marvelous objects that can still be admired.

during construction, workshop of Fabiola Lunghetti, continues the same noble tradition. florentine mosaic artist and Florentine Mosaic masters The same passion for stones, the same secrets of the trade, help us to create or reproduce the wonderful objects that seem to spring from the hands of Renaissance master artisans.

florentine mosaic artist and Florentine Mosaic masters

The art of the Florentine Mosaic Florentine or sketches in stone, through which the School of the Mosaic of S. Croce Plaza in Florence directed by the Teacher Bruno Lastrucci, tells to Florence and the world, the splendid tradition of the art lapidea since 1588 AD with Ferdinando 1° de' Medici
FLORENTINE MOSAIC
Florentine mosaic, a mosaic florentine of hard or semiprecious stones,
often so chosen and arranged that their natural colors
represent leaves, flowers, and the like, inlaid in a
background, usually of black or white marble.

 

florentine mosaic artist and Florentine Mosaic masters

florentine mosaic artist and Florentine Mosaic masters Paintings in stone' are designs made with stones. This is the best description of what the Florentine mosaic is.



The transformation of the raw material, the stone, which is hard, cold and immobile, into something that is alive and vivid goes back to 1588 to the capable masters of stone arts (tablets and such) who were gathered together by Ferdinando, the 1st of the Medicis in order to produce the first mosaic work.
The Florentine mosaic art continues this beautiful tradition through works of great detail, created with utmost care and a splendid taste for color, for Florence and the world to see.

These are works in which a high technical level is united with an accurate study of the most familiar and also of lesser well-known materials. The famous semi - precious stones of lapis lazuli, malachite, agate etc, are used along with less well-known stones like those used in Tuscany during the time of the Medicis. These stones are searched patiently in old quarries and mines, permitting for the use of the best quality stones that nature can give us.

Mosaic is a sort of pattern or picture made of colored stones, smalt or ceramic tile. Mosaic can be percept as a glorious palette of colored wood, glass and stones.

Mosaic art tradition had started at antique period (Roman and Byzantine styles).

During the period of Late Empire mosaic was used in decoration of private and social buildings. Since age XII Florentine mosaic is making of one plate positioned sheets of variable colored marble and jasper trimmed carefully in a wide range of shades and forms. The concept was borrowed from the intarsia tradition (a sort of incrustation applied in furniture design. Florentine masters were the first to apply natural fret of the stone for finished artifacts. A special technique for mosaic was elaborated up to the end of XVI century and had never changed seriously up to our days.

Florentine mosaic is a unique brand ( that a sort of picture painted by stones, by a unique selection of colors and shades basing on natural pattern.

Russian tradition of mosaic had started in Ural Region in XVIII century. The first masters had used valuable but never blocked rock breeds (malachite, lazurite, Kushkuldin jasper). As a basic plate they'd used turner produced forms of cutter stone or plate. To decorate it's possible to use not only marble or jasper but also semiprecious stones of Ural such as charoite, agate, aventurine, amazonite, onyx, ophicalcite, rhodonite, serpentine, fluoride. Mosaic was used to decorate not only flush walls and domes but also as an element of various architectural details and decorations with complex form and surface (vases, bowls, casket boxes).

The art of Florentine mosaic is alive. Old traditions are developed by contemporary masters.

Application of modern diamond tools and polishers makes possible to receive the quality of stone processing that was impossible before.

florentine mosaic artist and Florentine Mosaic Master Alexander Lipin (Moscow, Russia) offers the manufacture of various decorations in Florentine style on the base of Ural gems to ornament residential and office buildings with floor or wall panels, table plates and other decorative elements. It's also possible to decorate bathrooms and swimming pools. Copies of world famous painting masterpieces in the technique of Florentine mosaic are allowed. florentine mosaic artist and Florentine Mosaic masters Your special ideas (still life, scenery, portrait, arms, multi-figure compositions etc.) are also welcome. All the works will be unique.

 

 

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