All the splendour Crafts Jewelry Marches in history
Le Marche have a great heritage of gold culture. The presence of many laboratories, especially in the Renaissance period, a predominantly agricultural territory, represent the evidence of a profound link between gold and the Marche costume. A connection that origin from two cultural factors. The sense of religious people Marche, and use of gold as dowry goods inside the noble families and lower classes. Typical Marche jewelry are the Perugine. Common in all Marche territory up to the half of XIX century, the Perugine are bridal jewelry, silver earrings fire golden, with size proportional to the richness of the bride. Their chimes announce the arrival of the wedding procession. Other typical local jewel, the outstanding size of coral have linked to the wealth of her husband who makes a gift to his bride. The Perugine and outstanding coral, typical wedding gifts , are the dowry for each girl from husband and constitute the gold of the bride.
Among the most important centers of gold, developed especially after the feudal system and the emergence of the middle class town, during the age of Commons and the Lord, lead in the Marche two cities that reach their peak between the fifteenth and sixteenth century: Ascoli Piceno and Jesi.
Testimonials of the local Oreficeria Artistica are visible in all the museums of Piceno, confirming the spread of this art and its prestige. The artists from Ascoli Piceno are all formed at the Vannini school (1400) and encourage the spread of numerous goldsmith craft shops, consolidating a tradition that extends to other nearby towns, especially in Fermo. In Jesi born and formed the gold artist Lucagnolo, master workshop in Rome during Pope Clement VII.
Lacks a protagonist symbolic, but not an ancient tradition and consolidated processing of gold in Ancona. The art of working precious born and spread to Ancona from the sixteenth century. Ancona churches are enriched, especially in the eighteenth century, of vestments worked with gusto, from local shops. An ancient tradition of gold has also where Loreto is flourishing production of medals, crowns and other devotional objects for pilgrims visiting the shrine of Our Lady of Loreto.
For Urbino, the first gold which is known maestro Pagiolo from Urbino. Many goldsmiths who work in Urbino in the second fifteenth onwards, mostly citizens Urbino. But for the city duke of Urbino, as throughout the territory included in the Duchy, the real golden age is the lordship of Federico da Montefeltro and Della Rovere, from late fifteenth to the early decades of the seventeenth century. Local goldsmiths and coming from Milan and Florence in fact enrich the splendor of the festivities at the court of Urbino, Pesaro and Senigallia. A profusion of gold and silver, lamps, candlesticks, vases, Boccali, confectioner, sugar, chalices and reliquaries of exquisite.
Many also objects held sacred gold and exposed to worship, especially astili and processional crosses, in the province of Macerata. No major figure appears to have characterized the art of Macerata first gold of the eighteenth century, when silversmiths emerge between creativity and the genius of Sebastiano Perugini. In the second half of the eighteenth century there is a Macerata the name of the family plans to build a real school of art goldsmith intended to influence the local crafts of the precious even for almost the whole century later.
