The engravings concern hunting weapons, pistols, sporting weapons, stained knives as well as objects of various kinds embellished and personalized by the patient scratch of the burin that silky hands, light and caressing, trace on the obligatory path of beauty and charm. Cesare Giovanelli's workshop always collaborates with the prestigious Beretta Armi house, with Winchester and with the most important houses. Giovanelli exports his works all over the world. Rifles engraved by his magic burin have been offered to countless personalities from every continent, to Italian and foreign political figures, to world-famous sportsmen, to astronaut Rosa Mitchel. Newspapers and magazines in Italy and abroad speak of Cesare Giovanelli's activity in admiring and convinced astonished tones. The engravings also pass on copper plates, silver objects, gold, intaglio printing. The comparison with Benvenuto Cellini, therefore, does not stir a disrespectful breeze towards a Renaissance leader; Giovanelli, in his own way, sums up the anxieties of art, the beauties, the results of a revived Cellini, set in the middle of the twenty-first century, with the rhythm without frenzy of those who know how to remove authentic joys of spirit and eyes from matter.
So he does not disdain to try his hand at a via crucis made up of painful stations, with the figures of Biblical Scripture almost palpable, rising on the cold metal, made vibrant by a burin that seeks them out, finds them, makes them emerge for a double act of faith. religious and artistic. Cesare Giovanelli is assisted by valid masters, who give their personal contribution to perpetrate this art which unfortunately risks dying in the sector, which extends from engravings on weapons to those on plates, from intaglio printing to engravings on gold. It is a complex activity rich in infinite artistically detectable elements. But certainly the Bottega essentially exists in her works and for her works that are commissioned, in defense of an artisan art, unique in its expressions.
Source: Cesare Giovanelli's Workshop of Engravings