Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry

43°29′03.6″N 11°08′06.0″E / 43.484333°N 11.135000°E / 43.484333; 11.135000

Fonderia Artistica Ferdinando Marinelli
FAFM (Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry)
Industrymetalworking
FoundedFlorence, Tuscany, Italy, 1905
Key people
Ferdinando Marinelli, founder; Ferdinando Marinelli Jr., owner
ProductsStatues and Monuments in Bronze
Websitehttp://www.fonderiamarinelli.it

The Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry (Fonderia Artistica Ferdinando Marinelli abbreviated as FAFM) is a Florentine foundries, producing works in bronze utilizing the Renaissance technique of lost-wax. A large number of bronze sculptures produced in Florence over the last century come from this artistic foundry.[1] In Florence, the 'La Fontana del Porcellino', was cast by the Marinelli Foundry in 1988 and replaced the antique in 1998.

  1. ^ Maria Maugeri, La Fonderia Artistica di Ferdinando Marinelli a Rifredi, EDIFIR Firenze 2006