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NOV’ARTE ITALIA proposes itself as modern customer towards the artists encouraging them to offer their contribution of creativity and promoting the disclosure of their works in a circuit of connoisseurs and collectors in search of the best offered by the market.
During his career, NOV’ARTE ITALIA represented a selected group of artists of absolute quality and value: the greatest interpreters of contemporary art, the most outstanding masters of the ancient art of sculpture and artistic craftsmanship.
Right now NOV’ARTE ITALIA proposes bronze sculptures of the master Alessandro Romano, made at the extraordinary craft workshop “Pontificia Marinelli Foundry” with refined and precious materials
ALESSANDRO ROMANO – BIOGRAPHY
Born in Rome on July 26, 1944. An artist of international renown, educated in the art workshop according to the glorious Italian tradition, after a debut in painting, expressed in figurative sculpture his talent, with results of extraordinary plastic and dynamic strength. In his work the mythological and religious are combined with the anxieties of modernity, creating a both classic shape and new, impressive for movement and measurement. From jewelry to monumental sculptures, through fountains, portals, sketches and extraordinary designs, you have an opportunity to see a real, extraordinary “rhapsody of beauty.” In 1985, with three painters, Alessandro Romano founded the New Italian Manner, a cultural movement that recovers the figure, permeating it with such conceptual suggestions to recieve enormous interest in Italy, in Europe, in the United States, Russia. Read more »
MARINELLI FOUNDRY
Agnone is a small village on top of a hill in the Molise region, in central Italy. This town is home to one of the oldest companies in the world, the Pontifical Marinelli Foundry. How does the name implies, has been awarded the title “Pontifical” in 1924 by the Vatican for the importance that this foundry has had for the Church. But the story of this company starts much earlier. Already in 1040 there was a foundry at Agnone, which flows into the Pontifical Marinelli Foundry in 1339. Since the Middle Ages, the company produces bells for different buildings: the first bell of the Tower of Pisa, one for the abbey of Montecassino after damage of World War II, the bell of the Jubilee of 2000 and many more. Marinelli bells can be found in every corner of the world, all made following the ancient lost wax sculptural technique that has made them famous. Today, 90% of orders coming from the Roman Catholic Church, and not just limited to the bells but also bas-reliefs, portals and other bronze artifacts. Read more »
