{"id":444,"date":"2017-07-28T10:55:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T08:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spini.com\/eng\/?p=444"},"modified":"2021-07-22T16:58:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T14:58:29","slug":"cellini-mirror-and-lucida-masi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spini.com\/eng\/blog\/newsletters\/cellini-mirror-and-lucida-masi\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind a Mirror there is always a Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"justify\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><strong>Cellini Mirror,&nbsp;<span class=\"snip-sen true-dict ng-binding\"><span class=\"lh ng-scope\">between<\/span> <span class=\"lh ng-scope\">art <\/span><span class=\"lh ng-scope\">and<\/span> <span class=\"lh ng-scope\">legend<\/span><\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><strong>An object can be magical<\/strong>, and it can tell us stories that <strong>overtake the reality<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-US\">One of those object<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">s<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spini.com\/eng\/collections\/classical-tables-and-consoles\/\"><strong>&#8220;Cellini Mirror<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;: through its shape it shows us a magnificent world, back to the baroque <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">time<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Therefore Cellini Mirror by Spini is a carved-wood mirror, <strong>inspired by the great artists of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mannerism\">mannerism<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baroque\">baroque<\/a><\/strong>. The mirror is entitle<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">d<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> to Cellini, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benvenuto_Cellini\">the famous Florentine artist<\/a> that still influences generations of craftsmen. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The inspiration for creating this<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> gorgeous mirror <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">does <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">not come only from the Cellini\u2019s techniques; when Spini\u2019s craftsmen made it, they want<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">ed<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> to create an homage to Tuscany nobility of the Seventeenth-century, and in particular to one of the most controversial Tuscany legend<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">s<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">, <strong>the story of <\/strong><\/span><strong><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>Luc\u00ecda Mansi<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><em><span lang=\"en-US\" style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><b>The legend of Luc\u00ecda Mansi <\/b><\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-444 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spini.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/Lucida-Mansi-200x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spini.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/Lucida-Mansi-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.spini.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/Lucida-Mansi-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-450'>\n\t\t\t\tLuc\u00ecda Mansi\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spini.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/800px-Palazzo_mansi_alcova_01-200x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spini.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/800px-Palazzo_mansi_alcova_01-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.spini.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/800px-Palazzo_mansi_alcova_01-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-451'>\n\t\t\t\tMansi&#8217;s Villa\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span lang=\"en-US\">Once upon a time a beautiful but vain noble woman, <strong>Luc\u00ecda Mansi<\/strong>, who lived in a wonderful <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">villa in Lucca<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">. She was one of the most beautiful girls of the city, a real <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">femme fatale. Therefore<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> men adored her and desired to be with her. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span lang=\"en-US\">She was beautiful as she was cruel, indeed she used to kill her lovers when they bored her.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span lang=\"en-US\">Luc\u00ecda was obsesses by her beauty. She had <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> a lot of gorgeous mirrors, that cover<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">ed<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> the walls of her room. Those colossal and shining mirrors were made by the best craftsmen of the country. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span lang=\"en-US\">But time ravages beauty and Luc\u00ecda <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">understood<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> it when she saw a little wrinkle on her beautiful face. She knew that she got old and she <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">could<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> not <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">do<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> anything for changing that. She could n<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">ot<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> accept to lose her youthful good look, so she decided to made a deal with the Devil. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span lang=\"en-US\">The Devil and Luc\u00ecda agreed that in exchange of her soul, the Devil would have given her thirty years of additional youth. After thirty years of fancy life and numerous lovers, the Devil turned back to claim Luc\u00ecda\u2019s Soul. She tried to avoid her destiny, but she failed: thus the Devil took Lucida with him, and he brought her to Hell. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span lang=\"en-US\">Today it seems that Luc\u00ecda did not even manage to find peace after her death; you can still see her Ghost around the city of Lucca.<\/span><\/em><em><span lang=\"en-US\"> Some people see Luc\u00ecda in her palace, some others in the botanical garden\u2019s lake, where you can see the reflection of her face&nbsp;in the water<\/span><\/em><span lang=\"en-US\"><em>.<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cellini Mirror,&nbsp;between art and legend An object can be magical, and it can tell us stories that overtake the reality. One of those objects is &#8220;Cellini Mirror&#8220;: through its shape it shows us a magnificent world, back to the baroque time. Therefore Cellini Mirror by Spini is a carved-wood mirror, inspired by the great artists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[16,18,23,20,21,19,17,15,22],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletters","category-stories","tag-baroque","tag-cellini-mirror","tag-devil","tag-ghost","tag-lucca","tag-lucida-mansi","tag-mannerism","tag-noble","tag-tuscany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spini.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spini.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spini.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spini.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spini.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.spini.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/www.spini.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spini.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spini.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spini.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spini.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}