SICIS Jewels Unique

THE MICROMOSAIC FROM PAST TO PRESENT 04 Sicis’s unending research for new experiences, the passion for mosaics and the versatility of this art have inspired the Company to study the history of micromosaics and how they have been applied to the goldsmith’s art throughout the history. This is the inspiration behind Sicis, that from the earliest years of historical and bibliographic research led to establishment of an atelier for the study and application of Micromosaic, refining and transforming the techniques. Sicis, the Italian Maison of luxury mosaic, wanted to exploit such a significant artistic opportunity: to bring the mosaic inside a jewel. To understand how this magic is possible, it is necessary to find out, as in the flow of history, how events, personalities and techniques developed and met to create artistic paths and wonderful insights. The most advanced prehistoric communities were already able to cut, drill, engrave, and shape their own jewelry. They were forerunners of the goldsmith that will develop over the centuries with different and precious techniques, that gave birth to true professionals: beater, gilders, silversmiths, carvers, engravers, and goldsmiths. Among them, it stands another professional, less known, but extremely noble: the Mosaic Master. In Papal Rome in the second half of the ‘700, it develops the precious and very particular art of micromosaic, where the mosaic offers to those who admire it a stunning executive perfection: a thumbnail of shards of colored glass, perfectly matched in fragile elegance. The big becomes small in a sort of fantastic introjections. As for assimilation, the same image that before covered an entire wall, it becomes a subtle embroidery, inserted in a grid composition that blends and blurs, and that forces the eye to make a path always different. 05