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Sacred Art School Summer Courses: Painting, Sculpture or Jewelry
Sacred Art School

Summer Courses: Painting, Sculpture or Jewelry

Metropolitan City of Florence, Italy

1 Months

English, Italian

Full time

15 Apr 2025

07 Jul 2025

EUR 2,500 / per course

On-Campus

Key Summary

    About: This program offers summer courses in Painting, Sculpture, and Jewelry, allowing you to explore your creativity in a vibrant environment. You'll receive hands-on instruction from experienced artists while working on your own projects. Each course is designed to enhance your skills through practical activities and engagement with diverse materials.
    Career Outcomes: Completing these courses can lead to opportunities in creative fields such as art production, design, and craftsmanship. You might pursue careers as a professional artist, art teacher, or craftsman, or even delve into related industries like gallery management or art therapy.

Introduction

Drawing and Painting Course

The course will introduce the student to painting. We will start with simple shapes and then move on to more complex ones. Step by step the student will learn a methodology to learn to represent reality with precision and truthfulness.

The course will end with a theme work. The course will be enriched by weekly visits to museums and churches in the city of Florence.

There the student will learn the history of art through the works of the great Florentine masters and the historical and social context in which they were produced.

Drawing and Sculpture Course

All the exercises will be oriented to the improvement of the observation, the training of the eye, which will allow the students to interpret the shape in a precise way. The course is divided into three weeks, in which the students will have the first approach to modeling with clay where theย student will learn the history of art through the works of the great Florentine masters and the historical and social context in which they were produced.

Jewelry Course

This course offers an introduction to goldsmithing. Students will make three jewels using various metalworking techniques. Drawing, casting, design, construction, engraving, fretwork and wax processing are the basis of every project.

  • Casting, malleability, and ductility of the metal, ring construction
  • Fretwork, fundamentals of engraving, cabochon setting
  • Creation of a jewel designed by the student

Gem setting Course

This course offers an introduction to traditional gem setting techniques, an art that is highly sought after in the job market today, as well as being a skill useful for those who already work as a goldsmither.

  • Setting of cabochon stones
  • Beaten bezel
  • Claws
  • Pavรฉ

No previous knowledge is required

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Total hours: 108

The courses will be held in Italian and English.

When?

I session:

Starting date: Monday July 7, 2025

Ending date: Friday August 1, 2025

  • Monday โ€“ Thursday: 10.00am โ€“ 5.00pm
  • Friday: 10.00am โ€“ 1.00pm

II session:

Starting date: Monday August 18, 2025

Ending date: Friday September 12, 2025

Application Deadline

The application deadline is April 15, 2025 for those who wish to apply to the I session and June 15, 2025 for those who wish to apply to the II session.

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