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Mosaico di Spilimbergo

Spilimbergo is a small medieval town, also known as the city of mosaics thanks to the activity of a school unique in its kind. Born officially in January 1922, the school is the direct heir of the traditional Roman and Byzantine mosaic and, subsequently, Aquileia and Venice. Together with the laboratories citizens, it creates fine mosaics that embellish any type of building in various corners of the world. For example, they are decorated with mosaics of Spilimbergo airports, train stations, subways, hotels, universities, gymnasiums, stadiums, palaces, public and private residences, cathedrals, mosques, shrines and monasteries. The mosaic is still considered one of the noblest branches craft Friuli. In the province of Pordenone, the mosaics are scattered everywhere. In centers and in the most remote villages, representing religious themes, profane or simple ornaments. In the villas illustrate the entrenched pagan culture and basilicas depict the innocent and engaging manifestations of Christianity. Udinese have left the mosaics the eternal trace their history deep in the collective memory, sometimes enriched by legends or nuanced by news dubious. And 'the beginning of the 900, but which, thanks to the cultural context and the air of renewal brought by art nouveau and liberty, the mosaic had the impulse that created that group of mosaic modern, cohesive in the way of doing mosaic, which ensured, up to now, a constant and progressive presence of artisans in the area. Although the mosaic art has had great development and distributed nationally, there are numerous testimonies that recognize the mosaic of Spilimbergo great technical skills and a great expressive force. The craft Friuli has developed his own inclination to migrate and to engage in major projects abroad, relocating the mosaic art in the right position it deserves in the cultural Italian craftsman. Many were and still are the clients that require the contribution of the experience Spilimbergo and there are many works that have been realized in the world. In recent years the mosaic Spilimbergo is increasingly freeing from the now moderate themes of tradition and its ancient culture, proposing important application variants capable of renewing the field and change the production system, previously mainly engaged in the realization of mosaic floors, and Now, more oriented to the production of objects in mosaic on the border between the craft and design, manufactured in the round could show, with lightness, the many expressive possibilities of pieces of colored stone or shiny enamel, glass or d 'gold. The mosaic is no longer just "painting perennial", but also material to be molded and to compose, material that has a thickness editable, a particular depth and an unusual harshness.


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