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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