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Contemporary Jewellery - The Padua School

Contemporary Jewellery - The Padua School

From Three Generations of Goldsmiths

By (author) Graziella Folchini Grassetto

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  • A long-awaited survey of more than fifty years of art jewellery from the Padua School covering its work from 1950 to the present
  • Works by master goldsmiths Mario Pinton, Francesco Pavan and Giampaolo Babetto and other artists together add up to the distinctive, typically Paduan look in art jewellery
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The Padua School originated from the Istituto Pietro Selvatico in Padua. The distinctive features of this jewelry are the use of gold reminiscent of the goldsmith’s art in antiquity and a modern and abstract formal expression within the group. Mario Pinton, who brought the goldsmith movement international recognition and acclaim in the 1950s and ’60s, is credited with founding the experimental goldsmith movement in Padua. Francesco Pavan has enlarged the scope of the Padua School with his kinetic and geometric formal idiom.

The breakthrough on the international jewelry scene took place in the late 1960s with Giampaolo Babetto, under whose support the geometric and Minimalist tendency was most pronounced. Other distinguished artists in jewelry such as Graziano Visintin, Renzo Pasquale, Annamaria Zanella, Stefano Marchetti and Giovanni Corvaya continued along these lines or went their own highly individual ways by experimenting with the use of new materials including plastic. The work of these creative artists is beautifully displayed through color photographs, which serve to highlight their great talent.

Specifications
Publisher
Arnoldsche Art Publishers
ISBN
9783897902022
Published
1st Apr 2005
Binding
Hardback
Territory
World excluding Japan and South East Asia
Size
270 mm x 230 mm
Pages
168 Pages
Illustrations
100 color, 40 b&w
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