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About Giancarlo & Stefano Pedretti Master Engravers
Product Description This new publication is the third in Blue Book s Italian Master Engravers series! Giancarlo and Stefano Pedretti are a father and son team of engravers who specialize in animals, hunting scenes, and gold inlays. This new book features fabulous full color images of their best engravings! From their studio in Gardone, Val Trompia, they create modern masterpieces, completely by hand, for those who desire the very best in ornamental and game scene engraving. Their pioneering work in bulino realism has helped take the engraving craft into the realm of fine art it is known as today. Giancarlo began his engraving career at Beretta as an apprentice during the summer of 1960 at the age of 13. His father and uncles also worked for Beretta and young Giancarlo studied under the Master Engraver Tononcelli for three years. During 1979, he became a completely independent engraver, able to take commissions from customers directly. Stefano followed somewhat in his father s footsteps, but initially want Review "The engravers of Val Trompia have transformed the embellishment of modern fine guns over the last four decades, and the Pedrettis loom large in Italy's aesthetic revolution. Elena Micheli-Lamboy the premier translator to the Italian gun trade and former gunmaker Stephen Lamboy provide English-speaking audiences with unprecedented insights into Giancarlo and Stefano Pedretti's artistry and influence in this magnificently illustrated third volume in the Italian Master Engravers Series." --Vic Venters, Senior Editor, Shooting Sportsman magazine To my recollection, I have held two of Italy s finest sporting arms engraved by Giancarlo or Stefano Pedretti a Bosis and a Beretta SO grade. Describing the elegance of the work, the intricate cuts on the steel and the shaping and directing of light challenges the most poetic and observant writer for one is writing about three dimensional objects that have weight and contour and which are best appreciated by handling them, holding them up to the light and viewing them in three hundred and sixty degrees, as one would a piece of sculpture. Authors Elena Micheli-Lamboy and husband, Steven Lamboy, and publisher/editor S.P. Fjestad have published Giancarlo & Stefano Pedretti Master Engravers, a volume about a rare father-and-son engraving team and their studio in Gardone, Italy. The volume is the third in the series on Italian master engravers offered by Blue Book Publications. Books on any art form, to belabor the obvious, can offer only text and photographs. Within cages of words and two-dimensional visual images, the Lamboys have accomplished something extraordinary: more than illuminating their art, they have illuminated Giancarlo s and Stefano s artistic soul. Elena and Steven s ability to convey the Pedrettis' passion and values gives intellectual and aesthetic integrity to this ambitious project. The lyrical text reads so seamlessly it is easy to overlook the almost Sisyphean challenge facing the translator to capture in English the Italian flavor and passion. Elena s unsurpassed translating skill gives vivid life to the stunning text, permitting the reader to glide along as if on a tranquil lake rather than face the rough waters of a language barrier. The book contains 256 pages of text and sumptuous full-color plates of Pedretti-engraved firearms crafted by many of the world s most prestigious makers, presented in an oversized hardcover format. With photography by Mauro Negri and an interior design and layout by Andrea Marconi, this volume presents the engraving art in a way that stirs the soul, expands the mind and causes the fingers to tingle as only great art can do. The expansive array of illustrations showcases the Pedrettis masterful command over the full array of engraving styles and techniques the ornamental style done with hammer and chisel; the bulino done with the burin and hand pressure and the inlaying of precious metals. With the slightest infusion of imag
