Description

The woman chosen is a young and proud lady in Renaissance clothes, a woman who brings to mind all the splendor and pride of a people, whose refinement and wisdom, made it and still makes it unique in the world.   The style chosen, in fact, refers to the ancient imperial splendor of the golden period of Japanese artistic production, corresponding to the Italian period of the early Renaissance. Also in this valuable work the artist applies the ancient pictorial techniques of the great Tuscan artists of the early Renaissance using the most precious pigments (carmine red from Monte Amiata, cochineal red, pure malachite green and the white of Meudon, or white of Spain, pigment inorganic mineral obtained from the grinding of oysters and used to make the face translucent. It is used in the classical age both in the west and in the east and then rediscovered in the fifteenth century). It is a real attempt to unite the two worlds, heirs of ancient civilizations strong in ancient traditions. In this portrait of a woman, Silvia Salvadori manages to bring Italy and Japan together, renewing an ancient friendship.   Silvia takes as a reference the two great strands of oriental painting: Chinese “Kanga” and Japanese “Yamatoe”.   The painting was executed by the artist Silvia Salvadori on a 23-carat pure gold background and engraved with a burin according to the oldest gold working technique used in Tuscany since the late Middle Ages. The pure gold background was gouache applied and the pure gold used is of the highest quality and thickness (Battiloro Giusto Manetti Battiloro, Florence). The decorations on the robe are all engraved on the gold background. The young Japanese woman recalls the ancient splendour of the golden age of art in Japan. Silvia Salvadori wanted to decorate the robe with thin threads of pure gold following the Tuscan pictorial tradition of the early Renaissance.  Japanese Renaissance style art.