{"id":107991,"date":"2022-01-18T09:41:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T08:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/ecomsite\/artisti\/pietro-melandri\/"},"modified":"2025-03-02T09:33:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T08:33:39","slug":"pietro-melandri","status":"publish","type":"artisti","link":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/artisti\/pietro-melandri\/","title":{"rendered":"Pietro Melandri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pietro Melandri<\/strong> est n\u00e9 \u00e0 Faenza le 25 juillet 1885.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After some time in Faenza, where he spent his time among illustrious artists, <a href=\"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/ecomsite\/en\/product\/design-en\/decor-en\/ceramics-en\/pietro-melandri-and-paolo-zoli-ceramic\/\">Melandri<\/a> moved to southern Italy and then to Milan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here he lived in poverty and had a productive artistic and intellectual period.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He worked first as a decorator and then as a set designer. At the same time, he took evening classes in Brera.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Returning to Faenza after years of war and imprisonment, he took back up his work as a ceramist, first with <a href=\"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/ecomsite\/en\/artists\/paolo-zoli\/\">Paolo Zoli<\/a> and then with Francesco Nonni.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to the economic support of the <strong>Umberto Focaccia<\/strong>, an industrialist from Ravenna, who in 1922 bought for him the property that had been owned by the Minardi brothers, he started to work on his own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melandri survived everything, the economic crisis of 1929, the break with Focaccia, and conflict with Faenza&#8217;s ceramic and artistic milieu.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From 1920 to 1940, he took part in major shows, exhibitions and competitions in Italy and abroad. He met with great success and awards wherever he went (such as awards won in Paris in 1925 and 1937, and the <strong>Faenza Prize<\/strong>, won for two consecutive years, in 1938 and 1939).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nothing could stop him, not even the almost total destruction of his home and workshop when it was bombed in 1944.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong> Melandri<\/strong> kept working until he was 87 years old and was among the greatest ceramists in 20th-century Italy. He deftly combined excellent technique (his innovative use of glazes and the iridescence of his varnishes were often enough to mark his pieces as unmistakably his), a quite eclectic production, and his strong, generous personality.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was said to have a tempestuous character and unstable temperament. 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