My favorite items in the museum are the small, personal, intimate objects archived with information about many children who were brought to the hospital in the 1800s to be cared for as orphans.… Read More identification marks + foundlings’ fate
“In alchemy, lead needs the lowest grade for it transformation in gold. It is both a cold and heavy metal linked to Saturn and melancholia, and a more spiritual metal due to its silver components.” – Anselm Kiefer… Read More alfabeti sommersi: anselm kiefer, lead books + the florence flood
The Museo degli Innocenti (Museum of the Innocents) in Florence has just undergone a major renovation and reopens to the public on Friday, June 24, 2016. The institute is located in the old Spedale degli Innocenti (Hospital of the Innocents) in Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, designed by Filippo Brunelleschi in 1419, funded by the Silk Guild, one… Read More identifying objects, innocent foundlings
Castel del Monte stone inlay pendants This is the second version of a pendant design of the Castel del Monte architectural floor plan. Read some history about the castel and see the first version with paper, sterling silver, and resin. This series of pendants features the plan marked with stone inlay: green malachite, black marble,… Read More castel del monte architectural floor plan: 3 stone inlay pendants
Castel del Monte Plan Pendant In my ongoing series of pendants from architectural plans of Italian villas, fortresses, and castles, I came across an old travel guide with the unique plan of Castel del Monte, located in the region of Puglia. Castel del Monte (Italian for “Castle of the Mountain”) is a 13th-century castle located… Read More sterling silver pendant of floor plan from the castel del monte (puglia)
On a recent trip to the coastal city of Alghero, Sardegna (Sardinia), I visited the Museo del Corallo, a small museum about the ancient local red coral trade. Corallium rubrum, some of the highest quality and perhaps most endangered coral of the Mediterranean, has been harvested around Alghero for centuries and has been an important artistic… Read More coral museum in alghero sardegna and testing for true coral
