Torrini (jeweller)
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Torrini 1369 is a historic Florentine goldsmith firm. The Historic Shop in Piazza Duomo 12 / R in Florence is still the vivid testimony. It is the site of an art in which is represents and presents internationally the production of jewelry of the Ancient Goldsmith Manufacturing.
As a record of the past is reported the Museum, which had a virtual structure, is an integral part of the 'Historical Archive Torrini 1369 and held exhibitions in historic sites and prestigious.
History
The Torrini Ancient Goldsmith Manufacture, whose trademark belongs to the oldest Goldsmith Lineage still active in the world: the trademark was registered in 1369 by Jacopus Turini of Scharperia (an outpost located north of the Republic of Florence); supported by a research of the Family Business Magazine in 2008, it is written that the Torrini Goldsmith Lineage is among the top ten oldest family businesses in the world. By the Archive of the Florence State still exist the indelible traces of the registration that the member of the Linrage made to the Guild of cuirass makers, locksmiths and blacksmiths with a signum (legend says half cloverleaf with spur but recent research give for sure that was the initial of his father Bernardo) that still is used to seal the works that come out of the Torrini Ancient Goldsmith Manufacture.
The production of jewelry and works of high-level art has been passed down from father to son. Some examples of these works, dating back to members of the Torrini Goldsmith Lineage, ended up in museums around the world such as those by Giovanni di Turino or Turini with the Madonna and Child of the Detroit Art Institute and the Virgin and Child at Metropolitan Museum of Art in Washington, or the latest nineteenth-century parure of Giocondo Torrini at the British Museum in London: an example of Florentine mosaic in hard stone. A typically Florentine production, which became gradually more and more rare for the type of hand work.
Besides the typical gold or silver jewelry, works of pure handicrafts, current collections also include wrist watches, pens and perfumes.
The Museum
The museum bears witness to the secular activities of the Torrini Goldsmith Linrage with its ultra seventeenth-century history. Among the museum works stand out of the rare examples of Renaissance silverware, a group of eighteenth-century brooches, some nineteenth-century brooches made of semiprecious stones. They are periodically organized in via traveling exhibitions devoted to monographic issues or to particular artists.