{"id":8524,"date":"2020-05-28T11:45:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T09:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/italia-sumisura.it\/en\/?p=8524"},"modified":"2020-11-02T18:05:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T17:05:57","slug":"the-art-of-ceramics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/italia-sumisura.it\/en\/the-art-of-ceramics\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of ceramics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There must be a reason that ceramics have been a part of human history since prehistoric times. Ductile and manageable, it is the <strong>raw material used to create numerous useful as well as artistic objects<\/strong>. In its various forms (ceramic, tile, porcelain&#8230;), ceramics production has touched many areas of our country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>southern regions<\/strong> learned from <strong>Greece\u2019s precious heritage and<\/strong> since then have been producing fine ceramic works. The <strong>central regions<\/strong> did the same but they owe their ancient knowledge to the <strong>Etruscans<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/italia-sumisura.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Morigi-Mirta_25s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" src=\"http:\/\/italia-sumisura.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Morigi-Mirta_25s-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"Morigi Mirta_25s\" class=\"wp-image-3300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/italia-sumisura.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Morigi-Mirta_25s-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/italia-sumisura.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Morigi-Mirta_25s.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Orvieto, Siena and Faenza <\/strong>have been important production centres since the Middle Ages. <strong>Florence<\/strong>, where ceramics have been produced since the twelfth century, was already a leader in this art during the Medici era, when Grand Duke Francesco I had a workshop and kiln in the Boboli Gardens to produce majolica. In the mid-eighteenth century, the Carlo Ginori (1737) Factory first produced majolica and then porcelain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <strong>Marche<\/strong>, between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, the centres <strong>Urbania <\/strong>(recognized in &#8217;94 as a <em>production area of \u200b\u200bartistic and traditional ceramics<\/em> by the AICC, Italian Association of Ceramics Cities), <strong>Casteldurante, Urbino and Pesaro<\/strong>, are also important. There, they still produce, in the words of D&#8217;Annunzio, \u201cancient shapes of inimitable grace\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/italia-sumisura.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Ceramiche_5s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/italia-sumisura.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Ceramiche_5s-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Ceramiche_5s\" class=\"wp-image-3302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/italia-sumisura.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Ceramiche_5s-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/italia-sumisura.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Ceramiche_5s.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Again in Umbria, even today, the ceramics of <strong>Deruta<\/strong> have a prestigious history, taking their inspiration from the second half of the 1400s to the end of the 1600s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The north has renowned ceramics centres such as <strong>Savona and Albisola in Liguria<\/strong>, where this craft has ancient origins due to the numerous basins of clay found in this territory. Then there are the <strong>ceramics of<\/strong> <strong>Veneto<\/strong>, whose golden moment was in the 1700s, thanks to the discovery in Europe of the secret to making porcelain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There must be a reason that ceramics have been a part of human history since prehistoric times. Ductile and manageable, it is the raw material used to create numerous useful as well as artistic objects. In its various forms (ceramic, tile, porcelain&#8230;), ceramics production has touched many areas of our country. 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