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Alabaster
Sculpting Workshops
Alabaster
working: traditional Handicraft in Volterra
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Shaping
and sculpturing...
Alabaster
is a creamy-white, transparent, crystalline stone from
the region around Volterra that fascinated the ancient
Etruscans more then 2,500 years ago. It conceals a secret
inner character composed of shape, veins, colour and transparency.
Concealed in broad layers of gypsum at depths of up to
100m underground, alabaster is laboriously excavated in
egg-shaped blocks and then shaped in craftsmen's workshops.
It can be carved, sawed, filed and sculpted, making it
the perfect material for sculptures of all kinds, both
for beginners and advanced artists. Volterra has gained
a world reputation for its long tradition of expertise
in working alabaster stone. This course, held by a local
artist and sculptor, will introduce you to the beauty
of this stone as well as its handling, thus assisting
you with your own creative and artistic work.
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Alabaster
Sculpting Classes
Alabaster
sculpting classes include 20 lesson hours on 5 days. Accomodation
and half board is for one week, arriving and leaving on
Saturday. The teacher, Alessandro Marzetti, young arstist
from Volterra, will guide you though the secrets of this
old tradition from Volterra and will help you in realising
your own work of art.
Alabaster
sculpting courses are suitable for beginners and expert
sculptors who would like to learn specific work techniques
for alabaster sculpting.
This
course is also loved by children!
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Course
Management : Alessandro
Marzetti
Please
click on the photo to visit Alessandro
Marzetti's website
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Course
dates for 2012
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Rates
2012
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Alabaster
workshops will be held with a minimum of 4 participants.
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€
720 per person, 1 week (7 nights)
Rate
includes :
- Accommodation in double room or apartment for 7 nights
(arriving on Saturday and leaving on Saturday).
- Half board (buffet breakfast and 4-course dinner, drinks
not included)
- Alabaster classes: 20 lesson hours per week on 5 days
- Alabaster
stone for the first work
- Free bus transfer from
and to Volterra on arrival and departure days for
guests travelling with public transport.
Rate
does not include:
- Single
room supplement (€ 172 per week)
- Drinks
at dinner
Alabaster
Sculpuring lessons, without accommodation:
In
Villa Palagione it is also possible to participate to the
Alabaster Workshop without booking the accommodation and
the half board.
Lessons
can be arranged anytime on request.
Please
contact us for further information.
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