Alessandro Dari: Jewellery Museum, Atelier and School
Oltrarno, Florence
The Atelier-Museum has been alive for over 30 years thanks to Maestro Dari, descended from a seventeenth-century family of artists. The Atelier Museum contains about 1400 works
Highlights
- See the most beautiful handmade Renaissance jewellery
- Buy the handmade jewellery
- See the master at work
Description
The jewellery museum is in Nasi-Quaratesi palace located in the Oltrarno area: the heart of Renaissance art in the city. The Atelier-Museum has been alive for over 30 years thanks to Maestro Dari, descended from a seventeenth-century family of artists.
Around 1547, inside the museum, following a landslide of the hill above, Raphael's painting 'The Madonna of the Goldfinch' was found, a wedding gift from Raphael himself to the Nasi-Quaratesi family.
During the Renaissance, Andrea Quaratesi, a well-known lover of Michelangelo, lived in the palace. The whole neighborhood was teeming with those artists and craftsmen who made Florence famous for its beauty.
Master AD wanted, inside the museum, to create a world where the history of jewelry can come back to life. In its forms, the jewel tells stories and events, in a journey that begins in the Middle Ages up to the present day, still full of mysteries.
For the Master, Alchemy is an indispensable spiritual nourishment for matter to heal and revive in new forms, which it itself makes known to the Master, where it thus becomes the link between two worlds, one real and one imaginary.
Alessandro Dari combines for the first time in the jewel the architectural forms of the past where the golden section becomes an indispensable guide, creating unusual anatomies and forms in the history of this art. From here come great works such as the collection of 'Churches' and 'Castles'
The musical works; the history of Alchemical Florence and medieval poetry form the background. All of these nuances combine to give life, in 2002, to a new form of Art: Perceptive Dynamism. Here the works do not necessarily have a dynamic state but express the mutation and change that lives within us.
In this new artistic form, the artist proposes the unfinished Michelangelo. Art lives in us only if it gives emotion: a non-passive dynamic state interacts with the work that belongs to all those who know how to feel it.
Each collection has a brief history which manifests itself in every single jewel personally made by the Master in the most varied materials; Blutonium, an alchemical alloy, is routinely used by him for his most important works.
Inside the museum where the master works there is a prestigious school that can only accommodate 7 students: a new method of teaching where the jewel is not only an ornament but sculpture and emotion.
Many works are exhibited in Florentine museums and in the world and numerous are the artistic awards received in the last 20 years. The Perseo Award as the best artist of the city; The Chosen Artist of the Vatican, Italian Jewel Ambassador and Winner of the Artistar Jewels world event, just to mention a few.
The Atelier Museum contains about 1400 works divided by historical periods and exhibited on two levels.
Includes
The entry ticket
Easy cancellation
Cancel up to 24 hours in advance for a full refund
