Mazzolini Art Craft Blog

Baptismal font repair and relocation

Baptismal font repair and relocation

We recently repaired, renovated and relocated the baptismal font at St. Joseph Catholic Church - Bluffton, Indiana. The font has been in the parish since before the current church was built in 1966. We cut out the old center and lined it with gold Venetian mosaic...

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Custom carved coat of arms for Catholic bishop

Custom carved coat of arms for Catholic bishop

We worked with our partner Art Studio Demetz in Italy on this religious wood carving. It's a represention of the coat of arms for Bishop James F. Checchio of the Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey. Ecclesiastical heraldry, as it’s known, began in medieval Europe “as a...

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Recent mosaic projects for Catholic parishes

Recent mosaic projects for Catholic parishes

Mosaic art predates Christianity, and has been a staple of Christian art since at least the 4th Century. Our partner Art Studio Demetz in Italy still uses Old World methods to create mosaics, with tesserae (pieces) that are produced by hand on the island of Murano,...

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Original bronze statue of St. Cecilia

Original bronze statue of St. Cecilia

We worked with our partner Art Studio Demetz in Italy on an original bronze statue of St. Cecilia for the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia motherhouse in Nashville, Tennessee. Custom religious statues are individual works of art. The artist starts with a pencil sketch...

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Custom marble statue of Our Lady of Lourdes

Custom marble statue of Our Lady of Lourdes

We worked with our partner Art Studio Demetz in Italy on an original, five-foot-tall marble statue of Our Lady of Lourdes for St. Brigid Catholic Church in John’s Creek, Georgia. Art Studio Demetz obtains marble from the quarries of Tuscany, one of which was used by...

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Custom carved-wood statue of St. Wilfrid of York

Custom carved-wood statue of St. Wilfrid of York

We worked with our partner Art Studio Demetz on this custom religious wood carving. It's a statue of St. Wilfrid of York, for a parish by the same name in Woonsocket, South Dakota. Wilfrid (634-709) was “one of the greatest English saints, a monk and bishop who was...

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