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A new masterpiece, another tool of the art of writing collection that tells about Painting and the art that takes form representing a subject or expressing the fantasy through lines, colors, shapes, values and tones on a surface.

The procedures that allow to set colored elements or pigments on a surface, depending on the man or artists’ project, have gone through variations and different preferences.

How painting was born? Why man has felt the need to express himself and his thoughts through images and colors since the antiquity?

Maybe because “Painting” according to Pablo Picasso “is only another way to keep a diary”.

Our tribute to Painting comes from the first signs left by man and leads us until the birth of the ideograms and cuneiform writing, signs and figurative shapes that gave birth to the alphabet.

Our journey starts with the Upper Paleolithic and takes us into a cave located in a village, in the north of Spain, a few kilometers from Santander. It is here that in 1879 cave paintings have been found and thanks to subsequent analysis of dating, it results that they date back of 35.000 years. Additional recent studies have also confirmed that these cave paintings are the result of collective works completed over thousands of years.

The UNESCO heritage Altamira Cave has been defined by the French archaeologist Joseph Déchelette “the Sistine Chapel of Prehistory” for the artistic-historical importance of the wall painting that it is possible to admire.

Made in charcoal and red ocher, the Altamira cave paintings, show the first chiaroscuro effects obtained by diluting the colors themselves. The images shown, mainly wild mammals and human hands, are concrete examples of real pictographic writing, understandable by anyone and precursor of language. The image of an animal or its graphic representation is based on a universal language that can reach any observer.

Our symbolic journey continues further south, into the mountain massif of Tassili n’Ajjer within the Sahara Desert. Right here they have been identified so far around 15.000 among paintings and rock engravings dating 10.000 and 9.000 years ago. They represent cattle herds, big wild animals and mainly human activities such as hunting and dancing that refer to the Neolithic era, when the climate of the region was more humid, and savannah was all over instead of the desert.

Once again, the images speak a universal language representing an event: the killing of a prey, how many hunters took part in an expedition or which animals had been caught.

The man’s need to communicate evolves together with the evolution of his own intellectual capacities and throughout time.

The cave painting, now too didactic, leaves the scene to the communication of cognitive concepts. We are at the origin of the subsequent dissemination of ideas through sounds, we are at the origin of the alphabet. The ideographic writing, developed from the pictograms of the Ice Age, was born in China around the 2500 B.C.

The ideogram is nothing else but a very stylized sign that corresponds to a word.

The man’s need to communicate images and thoughts through a simpler writing appears much clearer among the Mesopotamian civilization and the Egyptians.

The drawings of Sumerian writing and the cuneiform writing on one side, the hieroglyphics and hieratic writing on the other, represent the conjunction ring between painting and writing and with no doubt they are the origin of all the writings through the first phonic alphabets symbols.

THE LIMITED EDITION

The “Pittura – Arte della Scrittura” Limited Edition, gently placed on the superior tray of the handmade wooden box, as the previous dedicated to Literature Limited Edition, is a handcraft of Italian excellence. It is refined in every single detail and once again it is designed to offer the best writing experience.

The piston filling fountain pen is made in 925 both polished and antiqued silver, lacquer and precious blue/black resin which has been turned by hand from solid bar.

The cap, which has been embellished on top with the feather – the eternal symbol of writing by hands and of SCRIBO -, has been made with a central silver polished ring. On it is possible to admire the reproductions of cave paintings found in the Altamira cave and in the archaeological excavationsof Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria, which has been made with the casting technique and the cold lacquer.

The clip fits on the cap and celebrate this Limited Edition with the main painting tool: the brush. This 925-silver style detail is made by hand and refined in every detail until the final part that includes the bristles.

The statuary and well-balanced barrel is also made in 925-silver, lacquer and blue/black resin.

The central part of it shows the high relief Mesopotamic and Egyptian writing images decorations, being all ideographic representations that gave rise to the following alphabet and ideally linking the sign left over by painting to writing.

Entirely realized by hand made casting technique, the barrel declares the theme of this Limited Edition through the wording PITTURA standing among the ocher lacquer above the decorations.

The 925-silver knob, finely engraved with the first Phoenicians and Greek phonic alphabetical symbols, seals this precious tribute to painting.

Four water-based ink bottles, in the blue/black, orange, green and turquoise color, welcome the eight handmade charcoals and the sketchbook located at the base of the box.

The “Pittura – Arte della Scrittura” collection is made of 100 numbered limited pieces of piston filling fountain pen, with extra fine, fine, medium and broad 18 k gold nibs and 100 numbered limited pieces of rollerball. Also, the extra flexible 14k gold nibs are available with the same sizes upon request.

Furthermore, a limited numbered production of massive gold pens is available up to 10 exclusive pieces either in the piston filling fountain and the rollerball.

The “Pittura” edition of the “Arte della Scrittura” collection follows the “Letteratura” edition almost to underline Leonardo da Vinci quotes “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen”.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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Through this art writing tool, the written word, a prodigious instrument that makes us so human, becomes unique through time.

While the language is made by sounds, the writing is made by signs thanks to a tool which is used to communicate and to leave proofs on paper. This tool becomes an instrument to write the history of human being, not only to give interpretations to the world but also to enter the mystery of the mind.

In the function of writing words, a fountain pen connects emotions to reason.

On the body of the pen, as a canvas of present time, the voice of Homer, Dante and García Márquez come to life, as engraved on parchment.

Through centuries the world has seen the evolution of literature, as expression of human thought, according to human ideals and its changes. Thanks to writing, we have a universal memory; from ancient Greece, through the Middle Ages in Italy, until the magical realism in Latin America.

During the ancient times, mankind was singing to leave a record of his life, during Middle Ages he was focused on the path to redemption, moral and religious, and the man of our times, as in a hypothetical renaissance, gets excited in front of the beauty and gets inspired singing and dreaming.

Who has not held a pen in his hands feeling the power of time and the need to use it?

An ancient quill completes the perfect triad, along with paper and ink, and represents a loyal witness of human feelings. Homer, Dante, and García Márquez: universal heritage belonging to mankind. Homer with the quill, Dante with paper and García Márquez with ink.

This is the strength to transcend the human experience, whose ideography records the history of a country in the Homer epic, passions of his time and connection between poetry and fiction in the deep Dante’s voice, a fantastic dance and his magic realism in García Márquez literature.

Before the arrival of writing, the epic (the poetry of life), was remembered by oral tradition. Homer, with his “Iliad” and “Odyssey” had to wait nine centuries to link his name to those literary masterpieces, thanks to a fountain pen. It was prophesied: “It will be immortal forever and will not know old age.” Homer became eternal thanks to his writings.

“Sing Goddess, Achilles’ rage
black and murderous, that cost the Greeks
incalculable pain, pitched countless souls of heroes into Hades’ dark”

(translation by Mr. Stanley Lombardo, Indianapolis, Hackett Edition, 1997)

it is perhaps the most famous prologue of all history of literature. In a few sentences it introduces the entire contents of the Homeric epics and the conquest of Troy.

Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise. Dante, in his world literature masterpiece “Divine Comedy”, written in the Florentine vernacular (the language that gave rise to modern Italian), summarizes the over centuries large accumulated human knowledge. Dante descends into Inferno and, through the imaginary journey that brings him to the three realms of dead, he arrives at Paradise and sees the Trinity.

“Bethink you of the seed whence ye have sprung;
for ye were not created to lead the life of stupid animals,
but manliness and knowledge to pursue”

(translation by Mr. Courtney Langdon, London, Cambridge Harvard University Press, 1918)

It is in the Inferno, Canto XXVI, lines 118-120, that Dante, through Ulysse’s “little speech” to his crew, urges “the man to dedicate its intellect to arts, to pursue knowledge rather than trying to prevaricate against each other using the brute power, like animals do”.

Although Ulysse’s wandering, driven by his thirst for knowledge and ardor to know the human contrasting vices and virtues and defying his God’s will, puts the Homeric hero into Hell, his words certainly represent the highest moral redemption research.

Gabriel García Márquez in his “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, explores reality through its own existing magic and gives us a seductive mixture of fantasy and cruelty.

“I can sit all day telling stories,” says Gabo, “the problem is that they want me to write them.” This is the way García Márquez became a writer, letting him win the Literature Nobel prize. His words remain engraved in everybody’s memory. His written words have turned dream into reality.

It almost seems that his quote “things have their own lives, it is simply a matter of waking up their souls” would refer to the writing instrument, able to transpose our own soul into words.

Is it there by chance any other way to leave a record of human thoughts and feelings than through a fountain pen that writes on a piece of smooth paper?

THE LIMITED EDITION

Wrapped and protected in a wooden box, entirely handmade, the “Art of Writing” Limited Edition is a piece of high italian craftsmanship, refinished in every detail and designed to provide the best hand-writing experience.

The piston filling fountain pen is made of 925 ‰ antique silver and precious resin, hand-turned from solid bar.

The barrel, central element of the fountain pen, is made with the ancient recipe of hand-casting, typical of the goldsmith, and represents a wounded on itself parchment, as a tribute to the art of literature.

At the top of the parchment it stands the ancient engraving located above the door of Thebes Library, founded in the fifteenth century b.C.: “Medicina per l’anima” (medicine for the soul). Three simple words that tell an absolute truth: libraries are pharmacies for humanity.

Immediately below “Medicina per l’anima” (medicine for soul), here there are, in high relief, the three Homer, Dante and Gabriel Garcia Marquez quotations reported in the original language: ancient greek for Homer, vulgar Florentine for Dante and modern Spanish for Marquez.

An elegant handmade magnifying glass is included to closely admire the hard-chasing work made on the three writers quotations.

The cap, slightly tapered at the top, has a minimalist and elegant shape. The clip, which is also made by hand-casting, represents the silhouette of an ancient book shoulder, ideally preserved in the oldest libraries. Eleven letters, also handmade by the old hand-casting process, outstand from the clip and compose the “Letteratura” (Literature) word.

On top of the Limited Edition the quill seal appears, as a timeless handwriting icon.

Two bottles of water-based ink, in black and sepia colors, are ready to write over 20 twenty sheets of handmade cotton fiber paper, completed by same quality envelopes, well preserved in a dedicated drawer of the Collector’s packaging.

The Collector’s packaging is completed by a 9 pens-holder tray.

The “Art of Writing” collection is made by 100 numbered and limited piston filling fountain pens with 18-carat gold nib available in Extra Fine, Fine, Medium and Broad sizes. The extra flexible 14carats nibs are also available on request in the same sizes. And 100 numbered and limited pieces are also available in the Roller Ball model.

In addition, a very limited and numbered production, made of 18 carat solid gold, is available in 10 exclusive pieces both in the piston filling fountain pen and in the roller ball models.

The “Art of Writing” collection is therefore a tribute to the art of literature, dedicated to anyone who wants to feel the best hand-writing experience.

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