Autore
Graziella Folchini Grassetto
Editore
Arnoldsche
Luogo di pubblicazione
ISBN
Pagine
160
Dimensioni
27x23
Lingua
Anno pubblicazione
2005
Rilegatura
Illustrazioni
120 a colori,
The Padua School is emanated from the Istituto Pietro Selvatico in Padua. The distinctive features of this jewellery are the use of gold reminiscent of the goldsmiths art in antiquity and a modern and abstract formal idiom individualised within the group.
Mario Pinton, who brought the movement international recognition and acclaim in the 1950s and 60s, is credited with founding the experimental goldsmithing movement in Padua. Francesco Pavan has enlarged the scope of the Padua School with his kinetic, geometric formal idiom. The breakthrough on the international jewellery scene took place in the late 1960s with Giampaolo Babetto, under whose tutelage the geometric and Minimalist tendency was most pronounced. Other distinguished artists in jewellery such as Graziano Visintin, Renzo Pasquale, Annamaria Zanella, Stefano Marchetti and Giovanni Corvaya continued on the lines already laid down or, by experimenting with the use of new materials including plastic and an expressive formal lexis, each went their own highly individual ways.