The art world 'captures' various expressions including jewelery making and painting. A combination that time it was possible to admire the Palazzo Panciatichi, a Firenze, thanks to jewelry and jewelry of the Calabrian artist Gerardo Sacco and Mattia Preti, important seventeenth-century painter, to mark the fourth centenary of his birth, the latter able to refine his canvases with the large rooms in Florence.
Sack, good Crotone, always he exhibits a particular craft, extricating expertly between gold, silver and precious stones. His is a warm earth, spicy, with its beautiful sea that has inspired so much in the past and he, thanks to his talent, forge meticulously his works. Works they are traveling and have traveled in Italy and in the world, making him give significant awards for his mastery. The Magna Grecia is clearly present in his heart with his old silences, East l'sublimates, as indeed blooms inaccessible, barbarous, wild, together with those merchants vociferous that give so much color to the beloved region.
He watches, investigates, It applies with great passion until shaping magnificent collections. We like the jewelry series Months, Iris, Zodiac, but also those jewels that take forms from glass paste, with those exquisite cameos and bouquets. Also draws all'artbresc, Albanian handicrafts for the particularity that only a keen eye can steal, but noted that the true craftsman reinterprets, putting "Anema e core!"He worked with various directors: one of these is Zeffirelli who wanted to "The Young Toscanini" and later for Hamlet. Many movie stars have made him a testimonial, some name? Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Elisabeth Taylor, Claudia Cardinale.
He knows Florence, "Cradle of art", city that has always been kind to him. Remember Via San Gallo, when there was often with his wife: He is glad to be back, It has many people to hug and embrace and hands dutiful thanks to dr. Domenico Ammirati what President of "Centro Studi Valdarno", and lawyer Rodolfo Foti, President of the association "Brutium, Calabrians in the world ", who organized the wonderful meeting.
He notes that ... "I do not love jewelry serial, but unique pieces. Femininity needs a few pieces to explode in sensuality. Combine well with dresses cut straight, essential ... sober. "
Mattia Preti. What astonishment ... .lo called the Cavalier Calabrese. His paintings have a lot of Caravaggio, indeed - observed Mina Gregori - he has only lengthened the strand, giving movement with creative phenomena important. Of its kind is a giant, it is he who asks the "chiaroscuro" to cohabit together, he insists on a new pictorial language as the father of modern historiography. Particular figure - ends - Priests isolated himself in his ideas and is considered the last great Caravaggio. "
Even Ammirati, among other good art expert, underlines the thick ... "Preti was a deeply caring man, scrupulous, the figure of a teacher of systematic, He has stood out in search of a new pictorial order. His works speak of a style so wise, much to 'travel' far and wide: We not surprisingly were exposed to Valletta, al British Museum, a Taverna, his birthplace and other places important.. as it is precisely Mattia Preti. "
C. Cavicchini
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