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A pair of black satin court shoes with a small bow at the toe and a block heel, one shown from the front and one in profile, on a grey background

Photo: Museum Rotterdam — CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Rows of worn wooden shoe lasts in many sizes and shapes, arranged on a pale wall

Photo: Wilfredor — CC0 via Wikimedia Commons

A red-painted cast-iron cobbler’s last with three feet, standing on a weathered wooden table outdoors

Photo: R. Henrik Nilsson — CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

The exterior of a Sergio Rossi footwear factory in San Mauro Pascoli

Photo: Aklicol — CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Villa Torlonia in San Mauro Pascoli

Photo: Broc — CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Piazza del Popolo in Faenza at dusk during Argillà, its arcaded loggia lit gold, market stalls and international flags filling the square below

Photo: Cinzia Sartoni — CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

The plain plastered facade of the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza, with its 1908 entrance door and a bronze sculpture on the lawn

Photo: Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza — CC0 via Wikimedia Commons

A dark, fissured ceramic vessel by Carlo Zauli, its surface split and glazed black, treating clay as sculptural mass rather than a container

Photo: Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza — CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

The Lamone river at Faenza, its water dark and still between overhanging trees on both banks

Photo: Lorenz91 — CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

A 1558 illustration from Piccolpasso's maiolica treatise: workshop assistants firing a brick kiln, one feeding the fire, another reaching in from a ladder

Photo: Cipriano Piccolpasso, 1558 — Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

A 1558 illustration from Piccolpasso's maiolica treatise showing workshop assistants at an arched brick kiln during firing, one reaching in with a tool

Photo: Cipriano Piccolpasso, 1558 (photograph: Wikimedia contributor Milartino) — CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

A 1558 illustration from Piccolpasso's maiolica treatise showing painters seated around a shared revolving table, each decorating a piece of ceramic

Photo: Cipriano Piccolpasso, 1558 (photograph: Wikimedia contributor Milartino) — CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

A Faenza maiolica dish of about 1520-47 by Baldassare Manara, painted with a full narrative scene of a lion hunt set in a landscape of trees and ruins

Photo: The Walters Art Museum, acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902 (48.1499) — Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

A Faenza maiolica plate, Casa Pirota workshop, ca. 1525-40, with a deep blue grotesque border of scrolls and masks around a small roundel of Cupid

Photo: The Walters Art Museum, acquired by Henry Walters, 1905 (48.1339) — Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

A Faenza maiolica plate of 1524 with a blue-grey berettino ground, a grotesque border of masks and urns, and Cupid in a roundel against gold

Photo: National Museum in Warsaw (SZC 1495 MNW) — CC0 via Wikimedia Commons

A Faenza maiolica bowl of about 1535, its deep blue border painted with acanthus and grapes around a roundel of a young man tied to a tree

Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931 (32.100.379) — CC0 via Wikimedia Commons

A Faenza maiolica bowl of about 1570 with a brilliant white glaze, sparse blue and yellow decoration and a central roundel of a standing figure

Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1908 (08.59) — CC0 via Wikimedia Commons

A two-handled Faenza apothecary jar of about 1480, painted in blue, orange and green with an armorial shield, its handles moulded as branches

Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 (1975.1.1060) — CC0 via Wikimedia Commons

A pair of oxen in a 1928 Romagna procession, covered with patterned blankets, a decorated iron caveja standing above their heads on the cart drawbar

Photo: Unknown photographer / Fondo Piancastelli — Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

A seventeenth-century mangano in a Santarcangelo di Romagna workshop: a large spoked wooden wheel beside a stone-weighted press box, photographed in 1971

Photo: Paolo Monti / BEIC — CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

The early twentieth-century town hall of Gambettola, a pink-rendered building with a clock tower, seen from the square in front of it

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Carved wooden printing blocks kept in a Santarcangelo di Romagna workshop, photographed in 1971

Photo: Paolo Monti / BEIC — CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

A rust-printed tablecloth from Gambettola, its repeated motifs stamped in iron-red on pale cloth

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