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The Turini family lived and worked in Siena in their workshop in the centre of the city, carrying out their activity with great skill and a mastery of all the techniques. They handed down the secrets of their craft to their children and pupils. The commissions and cultural encounters accumulated and multiplied; they collaborated with numerous artists, leaving magnificent masterpieces there that enriched the city.
In addition to their activity as goldsmiths, in their workshop, they also established themselves with enamel and with niello; they sculpted stone and wood for interior decoration, and realised magnificent works of polychrome wood sculpture that we can admire at Montalcino, Sant’Ansano and Siena.
Barna, Turino, Giovanni, Lorenzo, Paolo and many other members of the Turini family were complete artists. With their specificity and quality, they also vied with the Florentine artists and played an active and important role in the evolution of the goldsmith's art in Tuscany.
Giovanni Turini was not only the strongest artistic personality in the workshop, because he knew and practiced all the arts with great versatility, but he was
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