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Sicis’s unending research for new experiences, the

passion for mosaics and the versatility of this art

have inspired the Company to study the history of

micromosaics and how they have been applied

to the goldsmith’s art throughout the history. This is

the inspiration behind Sicis, that from the earliest

years of historical and bibliographic research

led to establishment of an atelier for the study and

application of Micromosaic, refining and transforming

the techniques. Sicis, the Italian Maison of luxury

mosaic, wanted to exploit such a significant artistic

opportunity: to bring the mosaic inside a jewel.

To understand how this magic is possible, it is

necessary to find out, as in the flow of history, how

events, personalities and techniques developed and

met to create artistic paths and wonderful insights.

The most advanced prehistoric communities were

already able to cut, drill, engrave, and shape their

own jewelry. They were forerunners of the goldsmith

that will develop over the centuries with different

and precious techniques, that gave birth to true

professionals: beater, gilders, silversmiths, carvers,

engravers, and goldsmiths. Among them, it stands

another professional, less known, but extremely

noble: the Mosaic Master.

In Papal Rome in the second half of the ‘700, it

develops the precious and very particular art of

micromosaic, where the mosaic offers to those who

admire it a stunning executive perfection: a thumbnail

of shards of colored glass, perfectly matched in

fragile elegance. The big becomes small in a sort of

fantastic introjections. As for assimilation, the same

image that before covered an entire wall, it becomes

a subtle embroidery, inserted in a grid composition

that blends and blurs, and that forces the eye to

make a path always different.

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