Torrini (jeweller)

Torrini's trademark was registered in 1369 with the Blacksmiths, Armourers Guild of the Florentine Republic by Jacopus Turini Della Scharperia (or Scarperia). In the State Archives of Florence, there are still indelible traces of the registration that the members of the Goldsmith Lineage did with a signum (the legend says it is a half-clover with a spur) that is still used today to seal the firm's works.

The production of jewelry and artwork is taught from father to son. Some examples of these works, dating back to members of the Torrini Goldsmith Family, have ended up in museums around the world. For instance, Giovanni di Turino's (or Turini) Madonna and Child at the National Gallery of Art Detroit Institute of Arts in the USA; and the Virgin with Child at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Washington, DC; or the nineteenth-most recent set of Giocondo Torrini at the British Museum in London: an example of a Florentine hard stone inlay while another exists at the RISD Museum in Providence (US).

The museum bears witness to the secular activities of the Torrini Goldsmith Lineage with its seventeenth-century history. Among the museum works there are rare examples of Renaissance silverware, and several eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century brooches made of semiprecious stones. They are periodically organized in traveling exhibitions devoted to monographic issues or particular artists.

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