Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry

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Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry
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“The Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry is an Italian bronze casting workshop that produces original sculptures and recreations using the Renaissance-era technique of lost-wax casting. It was established in Florence in 1905.”
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Atlas ObscuraSep 23

Sydney’s Philanthropic Bronze Boar in Sydney, Australia

Along the sidewalks of Macquarie Street, in the shadow of the grand stone arches of Sydney Hospital, sits a striking geographical and cultural anomaly. A bronze wild boar squats above a fountain basin, its snout worn down to a polished, gleaming gold. Anyone who has ambled through the Mercato Nuovo in Florence will experience an immediate sense of déjà vu: this is an exact 1:1 scale replica of…

Produced the bronze casting of the boar statue.

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