FAU Italian Program presents two nights with Maria Teresa Cannizzaro: “Italian Jewels from Dante to Rhode Island” Show and Lecture. Thursday March 2, 7PM in PA 101 Precious Stones and their Meanings in Dante’s Divine Comedy; Friday March 3, 7PM in PA 101 Italian American Custom Jewelry: Tradition and Creativity. Maria Teresa Cannizzaro is an autho...
READ MOREDecember 18 2021 Roma, Italy
READ MOREFor those like me who are not particularly familiar with the world of jewelry, which is also such a fundamental part of the production in which Italy has always excelled, it was curious to verify Maria Teresa Cannizzaro's passion and knowledge for the world of bijoux. A world that I do not know, but that I have learned to appreciate by being in the...
READ MORECiao from Rome! Autumn is here, and things are getting better in Italy. We’re not out of the woods yet, but things are improving, and we’re confident the worse is behind us. One of the things that had been interrupted with the pandemic was participating in live, in-person events. Finally, this activity has begun again, and so I was happy to restart...
READ MOREThis is the foreword to the catalogue of the exhibition “Dolce color d’oriental zaffiro. Le gemme in Dante e nei bijoux americani” opened on September 24 at the Museo del Bijoux in Casalmaggiore, Lombardy, Italy The history of Italian emigration to America and of the integration of our fellow Italians in a world that was unknown and often hostile t...
READ MORESeptember 24 2021 Casalmaggiore, Italy
READ MORECiao from Rome! Summer is ending, “L'estate sta finendo”, as a famous Italian song from the summer of 1895 used to say: do any of you remember it? I guess not. We the Italians didn't stop all summer long: with the exception of the We the ItaliaNews videos, even in the hottest months we told you what happened in Italy and the things that happened in...
READ MORENell’anniversario dantesco del 2021, 700 anni dalla morte di Dante, l’Associazione Passato e Futuro e il Museo del Bijou di Casalmaggiore (CR) aprono una mostra che unisce alla bellezza poetica l’arte (le “arti minori”) di artigiani italiani emigrati negli Stati Uniti. La mostra, che si inaugura il 24 settembre 2021 alle ore 18 con una conferenza d...
READ MOREA cura di Maria Teresa Cannizzaro, Fiorella Operto e Marco Violi. Galleria dei ritratti del Museo Diocesano di Imola. 7 dicembre 2019 │ 16 febbraio 2020. Oggetto dell'esposizione – in un suggestivo allestimento, che sottolineerà in particolare i cosiddetti bijoux delle feste – circa 300 pezzi (dagli anni '20 ai '70) prodotti dalle più importanti ma...
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