Museo Torrini
Museo Torrini
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Piazza del Duomo, 10-red, 50122 Florence, Italy
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A small and exclusive collection dedicated to jewelry, silver, timepieces, and objects d’arte, skillfully organized into different sections in secluded premises looking out on the harmonious lines of the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral: the Torrini Museum is contemporary testimony to a refined manner of transmitting an art with a very ancient tradition while raising it to levels of excellence, and awareness of the significance that its creative endeavor has acquired over time.
The main purpose of the museum is to illustrate the centuries of activity of the Torrini goldsmiths, a business founded in the Middle Ages - the family’s “Signum” hallmark with which Torrini still marks its creations was registered with the Arte dei Fabbri guild in 1369 - with a selection of products, some of which were recovered by the museum only through patient research at international auctionhouses and private collections.
Of special note are rare examples from the Renaissance in engraved silver, a priceless group of 18th-century brooches, and a parure of ancient inspiration, created of fitted semi-precious stones by this workshop in the 19th century. The nucleus of the permanent collection is presented in constantly-changing arrangements, but the museum also hosts temporary monographic exhibits dedicated to different themes or aspects of the history of jewelry and goldsmithing, and a section presenting the work of contemporary artists, among whom Cagli, Tosi, Mirko, and Antonio Bueno.
The section dedicated to externally- made pieces, instead, offers among other things a representative group of 18th- to 20th-century pocket watches that document the technical and aesthetic evolution of this fashion item, often as precious as it was useful. Piazza Duomo,10r
T 055-2302402
Info e prenotazioni T 055 2302402
museo@torrini.it
www.torrinimuseo.it
La visita è possibile solo su appuntamento
museums
Piazza del Duomo, 10-red, 50122 Florence, Italy
Show on map
A small and exclusive collection dedicated to jewelry, silver, timepieces, and objects d’arte, skillfully organized into different sections in secluded premises looking out on the harmonious lines of the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral: the Torrini Museum is contemporary testimony to a refined manner of transmitting an art with a very ancient tradition while raising it to levels of excellence, and awareness of the significance that its creative endeavor has acquired over time.
The main purpose of the museum is to illustrate the centuries of activity of the Torrini goldsmiths, a business founded in the Middle Ages - the family’s “Signum” hallmark with which Torrini still marks its creations was registered with the Arte dei Fabbri guild in 1369 - with a selection of products, some of which were recovered by the museum only through patient research at international auctionhouses and private collections.
Of special note are rare examples from the Renaissance in engraved silver, a priceless group of 18th-century brooches, and a parure of ancient inspiration, created of fitted semi-precious stones by this workshop in the 19th century. The nucleus of the permanent collection is presented in constantly-changing arrangements, but the museum also hosts temporary monographic exhibits dedicated to different themes or aspects of the history of jewelry and goldsmithing, and a section presenting the work of contemporary artists, among whom Cagli, Tosi, Mirko, and Antonio Bueno.
The section dedicated to externally- made pieces, instead, offers among other things a representative group of 18th- to 20th-century pocket watches that document the technical and aesthetic evolution of this fashion item, often as precious as it was useful. Piazza Duomo,10r
T 055-2302402
Info e prenotazioni T 055 2302402
museo@torrini.it
www.torrinimuseo.it
La visita è possibile solo su appuntamento