Grottaglie and Ceramics

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Grottaglie and Ceramics
Grottaglie Ceramic boasts a tradition unfortunately historically documented only since the sixteenth century Remain incomplete and uncertain, in fact, knowledge about this field since the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance and, though it is logical to assume an earlier than actually documented, even though up to now not been possible to trace any historical foundation course.

In the registers of 1567 the first artisans were called "Cretara, and cretaruli stazzonari" whose work, until the next century, in the absence of a high ranking client remains oriented towards the production of items and dishes commonly used fingerprint People the so-called "art ruagnara”. A large production that, over the centuries, represented a unique example of continuous production finding its natural setting of St. George in the ravine at the foot of the fourteenth-century bishop's castle, making a gradual transformation of the landscape whose end result is the District chimney (Li Camenn’re), a "village" primitive and timeless charm that makes it unique in its kind.

The Special School of Ceramic Art
is authorized October 15, 1887 with the aim "to provide teaching of technology, design and modeling with application to the ceramics”. In the process of economic and cultural Grottaglie thus forms a new company that will play a key role in the survival of a craft than in other neighboring towns off slowly to cease. In 1960 the School of Ceramics becomes State Art Institute and in the home office for several years, a breakfast room, the Educational Museum of Majolica. Currently the district is home to about 50 pottery shops, mostly family. The art is handed down from father to son and now the figure of the "shop guy" has practically disappeared due to the known laws about apprenticeship.


Cultural Association IL BAGATTO – Via Madonna Del Lume 43 – Grottaglie (Ta) – texts by Anna Montella
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