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Italian Ceramic Artist
About Matteo Di Luca
In the quiet kilns of Montelupo Fiorentino, Matteo Di Luca revived the lost sgraffito technique of 15th-century Florentine maiolica, not as replication, but as dialogue. His breakthrough came in 2017 with the 'Ciclo delle Stagioni' series, where he layered cobalt-blue underglaze with hand-etched gold leaf over terracotta bodies fired at precise 980°C intervals to control thermal expansion and prevent cracking, a method now taught at the Istituto Statale d’Arte di Faenza. Unlike studio potters who prioritize form, Matteo treats surface as narrative architecture: each plate tells a compressed myth through interlocking acanthus scrolls and fragmented Latin inscriptions drawn from recovered Medici-era apothecary ledgers. His work appears in the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza not as decorative object but as material philology, ceramics that decode Renaissance thought through tactile grammar. He refuses digital design tools, insisting the tremor of a steel stylus on leather-hard clay carries irreplaceable semantic weight.
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- “How did you adapt sgraffito for modern kiln atmospheres without losing historical line integrity?”
- “What apothecary ledger fragments inspired your 'Vesica Piscis' platter series?”
- “Why do you fire your terracotta at exactly 980°C—and what happens if it varies by 5 degrees?”
- “Can you walk me through how you translate a Latin botanical inscription into ceramic rhythm?”