Faenza ceramics are characterized by the chromatic harmony that comes from color, alighting on each other, light up a bright light and characteristic, and the timing and regularity of signs, from the wonderful variety of painting, the result of a refined culture steeped in stories of art, fashions and traditions away.
These handicrafts, since ancient times, have excelled for their sophistication, elegance and purity and, even today, these artifacts are universally recognized for their artistic value.
This admirable record comes from a long tradition of artists and craftsmen who, over the centuries, have been able to renew and improve attracting and delighting customers increasingly wide and demanding. Ceramic is in itself a poor material, which comes from clay
fields. And 'the process that makes it valuable, especially when the modeling of matter follows the hand-decorated with drawings minutes that require great care and precision. The first traces of pottery from Faenza are findings of workshops for the processing dating back to the first century BC. While the first findings of products date back to the first centuries after the thousand. In fact, it is during the Middle Ages that artisans from Faenza undertake consistently their journey in the art of clay, fire and color.
The craftsmen have always taken advantage of the local land,particularly suitable for machining of ceramic objects, orienting, at least initially, the exclusive home use. The art of shaping and decorations featuring artisans from Faenza comes from a reworking of the original contamination Lombard Venetian and Tuscan. Faenza, in fact, from the Middle Ages, fell in an area crossed by intense raffici coming both from the Via Emilia, is the roads that led from Tuscany to the north east of the peninsula.
Today the custodians of the history and tradition of glazed pottery are many craftsmen who occupy the shops of the city. About 700 exercises, mainly to run the exclusive holder, occupying just over 200 skilled workers. Born for the most part in the last twenty years, they are managed by young craftsmen trained by vocational schools and that, simultaneously with the formation, have experienced in the shops in the area.