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Guitar that belonged to Giuseppe Mazzini
Details referring to the guitar belonging to Giuseppe Mazzini, kept at the “Museo del Risorgimento” in Genoa
Technical data:
Author: Gennaro Fabricatore, Naples
Instrument: guitar
Dimensions: cm 93 x29x10
Date: 1821, Naples, Strada San Giacomo 42
Owner: Municipality of Genoa, Comune di Genova, Istituto Mazziniano – Museo del Risorgimento
Place of Conservation and Exhibition: Museo del Risorgimento, Via Lomellini 11, 16124 Genoa
Notes:
The guitar was donated to the Museum of the Risorgimento in Genoa in 1933 by Josephine Shaen, daughter of William Shaen, friend and biographer of Giuseppe Mazzini, so that it could be kept in the Museo del Risorgimento.
The instrument is in a good state of preservation and is played periodically as part of events of particular historical and artistic interest, and by artists of national and international importance.
With Determinazione dirigenziale 2016-138.7.0.-57 del Comune di Genova-Direzione Cultura – Settore Musei e Biblioteche, the two-year assignment awarded to Maestro Scanu was renewed, for periodic musical performances, functional to the enhancement of the historic instrument that belonged to Giuseppe Mazzini.
Other resources on this project:
Croma
Croma is a design object that allies the knowledge of lutherie, the care of artisanship and the possibilities of technology, by playing with the association between sound and colour. The true-to-life component of wood, a living and constantly changing product, joins the harmonic sound of the harp to give life to a new way of expressing emotions through light.
Croma is the expression of a new Made in Italy artisanship that, through creativity, was able to harmonize the daily design poetry with a technological innovation component.
Croma is an object to be lived, touched, played, listened and looked at: it possesses the ability to create different atmospheres while, characterising the surroundings and reflecting the state of mind of whoever by touching the strings, produces sounds and colours in a very personal way.
Croma is an object to be lived, touched, played, listened and looked at: it possesses the ability to create different atmospheres while, characterising the surroundings and reflecting the state of mind of whoever by touching the strings, produces sounds and colours in a very personal way.
At the base of the Croma idea, there is the development of a technology that transforms sound into colour. It then gave birth to a strong synergy between a specialized artisan able to realize an instrument beyond any traditional standards, an engineers’ team with a passion for sound, and two designers for the aesthetics definition and – in fine – a careful selection of materials: woods, strings and lighting system.
