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Galileo Chini
Galileo Chini was one of the most important protagonists of last century’s artistic and cultural panorama . He was a painter, a ceramist, and illustrator of theater sets. In 1897, he founded in Florence one of the most important artistic manufacture workshops of the time: the “Art of Ceramics”. He was acknowledged the merit of having turned ceramics, considered in that epoch as a minor applied art, into a production rich with highly artistic content and meaning. He decorated the halls of the Venice Biannual exhibition from 1904 to 1913, and realized stage-paintings for operas by Sam Benelli, as well as theater sets and sketches for operas composed by Giacomo Puccini. In 1910, at the peak of his extraordinary career, he was entrusted with the task of decorating the Prah-ti-Nam, the sumptuous throne hall of the king of Bangkok.
In Montecatini, walking along the Viale Verdi, outside the kiosk formerly devoted to the sale of salts extracted from the Tamerici hot springs, you can admire four earthenware panels depicting different phases of ceramic processing. Other excellent signs left by Chini in Montecatini are: the scale-tiled roof of the dome of the orchestra tribune inside the Tettuccio thermal establishment; the wine-shop hall inside the Tamerici thermal establishment; the astonishing decorations and the skylights in the Town Hall; and, the glass windows and decorated friezes in the historical La Pace Hotel.
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