Bearing in mind that the materials that the master goldsmiths go to treat will not take too long to understand how much this artistic work is closely linked to the world of goldsmith and jewelry in general and how delicate it is.
One often tends to think that those inherent in the worlds of goldsmith and jewelry are relatively modern, but this statement is certainly more than wrong, in fact the art that comes to us from the skilled hands of the master goldsmiths is one of the most ancient art form and crafts known to man so much so that the processing of gold that we remember being one of the first metals to be used for its precious qualities of indestructibility and malleability is identical to that of our ancient ancestors, dating back to Egyptian times and even before, with which the master goldsmiths made jewelry and artifacts obtained through fusion and through the techniques of chisel, embossing, mold, filigree, and baccellatura.
The rarity considered extreme because of the scarce availability of materials, comes to us thanks to the example of the various mergers to which the jewelry had to undergo repeatedly to witness the fact that the same gold was reused over and over again, one of all there are Egyptian cases found in the necropolis inside the royal tombs such as those of Tutankhamun, apart and quite different it must be done instead referring to ancient Greece for which there have not arrived many specimens for their difficulty in finding the raw material, or gold, at least until the Hellenistic era, during which Eastern exports brought large quantities of gold.
In the Renaissance period there was a union between the figurative arts and the goldsmith’s where many painters and sculptors of that time are known their mastery also as master goldsmiths, just to name one, Donatello.
In the contemporary age the bourgeoisie began to show off gold products, artifacts or jewelry, thanks to various new processing techniques at the expense of quality, Its all the plating that allowed to cover with gold objects and jewelry made of much poorer metals.
In Italy of the 900 the goldsmith’s and jewelry had a moment of true excellence, just think of the production Melchiorre and C founded in 1873 in Valencia by Vincenzo Melchiorre, moreover, and also that of Vincenzo Giura goldsmith Lucano, who even prescribes the patent of the royal house of Umberto I in 1989.
Today also the goldsmith is affected by the epochal change going to produce no more for a niche of people who tries to stand out from the masses but goes to produce for everyone, marketing those productions that can satisfy the pockets of anyone.
The chisel, in addition to being a typical work of goldsmith and jewelry, takes its name strictly from the tool used for the type of processing just mentioned, in fact the latter, the chisel, is nothing but a small chisel with which you can work all the metals and the various hard stones.
The chisel is used to decorate and refine in every detail the metal plates used in jewelry.
The overhang is a craft technique for the processing of slabs of noble material when you are in jewelry, but with the same technique can also be worked leather flaps or more malleable materials to obtain relief finishes.
By filigree we mean in the goldsmith’s art and goldsmith’s art the artistic technique that consists in the interweaving of very thin gold threads which, after the twisting phase, are fixed on a support also in gold in order to create an elegant effect of perforated structure.
In goldsmithing it is called baccellation a typical process that consists in creating humps directly on the object that the goldsmith is building.
The goldsmith’s mould is given by the same tool from which it takes its name that due to a pressure effect is shown a decoration previously made on a matrix to make several products with the same impression.
In the goldsmith’s art the master goldsmith is that figure able to realize any type of jewelry that comes directly to us from ancient times.
The master goldsmith is able, thanks to his skills to make earrings, bracelets, necklaces, brooches, rings and jewelry of all kinds.
According to these important principles of craftsmanship and craftsmanship we of the Cipolla jewelry dal 1950 keep alive the tradition of the master goldsmiths who over time have brought to us their wise tradition, and thanks to this we make our jewels according to the precepts of a whole history of great professionals in the sector.
