School Sacred Art: inaugurated the third academic year

Last Saturday at the headquarters of the Cascine Pavoniere opened the third academic year of the School of Sacred Art, conosciuta anche come Sacred Art School di Firenze, with new teachers and courses, scholarships, commissioned works and students from around the world.

Many students come from overseas: as well as from all over Italy, There were students from the United States, Mexico, China, Brazil, Chile, United Kingdom, Sweden.

The focus of Brazil, from where they arrived two students, was established by an international agreement between the Sacred Art School and the Museu de Arte Sacra Sao Paulo for the training of students in sacred.

Starting this year, students can attend the new postgraduate course in religious art with three addresses: painting, sculpture and jewelery.

It joins the third edition of the sacred in art and craft talent capable of using cultural competence, ancient artistic works and new production techniques for the Christian sacred art.

Il corpo docente si è arricchito di alcuni importanti maestri: Silvestro Pistolesi, among the most famous contemporary figurative painters, pupil of Pietro Annigoni; Anthony Visco, sculptor of Philadelphia, professor at the New York Academy of Art and the University of Philadelphia for over 30 years; Ignacio Valdes, Sevillian painter who devotes his art almost exclusively to religious subjects.

More and more students of Sacred Art School will work on commission, as a characteristic of a school-workshop.

In the recent past have made two paintings of saints (Josemaria Escriva and the Blessed Maria Cristina of Savoy) for the Church of S. Maria Maddalena and Ischia.

The school has also been commissioned to paint a portrait of Blessed Alvaro del Portillo and silver shop you are working for a monstrance for the university chapel of the Biomedical Campus in Rome.

For young talents who have attended the school in recent years have concluded 9 apprenticeships in craft shops and art and in three cases the boys came to work in them.

For the third academic year were awarded scholarships to the value of 44.400 euro thanks to the financial support of the Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, Chamber of Commerce of Florence, dell'Opera del Duomo, Fondazione Cassa Risparmio di San Miniato and the Foundation Livorno.

The School of Sacred Art was founded thanks to the cooperation between the association Artes (Tuscan Association Research and Study), the Opera del Duomo in Florence and IUline (Italian University Line), as well as some professionals and academics and support OMA - Centre for arts and crafts Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze for internships in small businesses.

After the celebration of the Holy Mass at 10, The inauguration was followed by a keynote address by Professor Antonio Natali, director of the Uffizi Gallery and the greetings of the President of the School of Sacred Art Stefania Fuscagni and Vice President Paolo Blasi.

The school is open to visitors every day from 9 at 18, Monday to Friday.

Michael Lattanzi

By the number 40 – The Year of 19/11/2014