Arnaldo Brandizzi was born on January 9, 1889; his father, Giacomo Ettore, was a drawing teacher and an engraver who worked in the artisan shop he founded in 1887, at 13 via dei Coronari.

Arnaldo Brandizzi, who had graduated in Engineering, worked in this shop next to his father, but it wasn’t just a hobby. His father’s work attracted him, conquered him and became a lifestyle for him, so much so that – once his father died in 1917 – Arnaldo Brandizzi took over the shop on via dei Coronari, thus starting the vast and continuous work which proved him to be an excellent master in his art. Arnaldo Brandizzi has chosen to use noble materials, with rare exceptions due to the very nature of the pieces: silver, gold, precious stones.

Silver urns containing the bodies of St. Nicholas of Tolentino, St. Rita of Cascia, St. Vincent Pallotti, St. Francis Xavier, Blessed Cardinal Bellarmine, Blessed Innocent XI, St. Maria Goretti; several dozen of silver reliquaries donated to Popes on the occasion of beatifications and canonizations, kept in the Matilde Chapel in Vatican City, five Golden Roses – as high as four feet – offered by popes and destined for Sanctuaries and Members of Royal Houses, St. Pius X’s mask and hands; countless altars, complete with chandeliers, ciboria, monstrances, chalices, pyxes, patens: these are only some of the thousands works, different in size and relevance, which came out of master craftsman Arnaldo Brandizzi’s shop in fifty years of uninterrupted work.