Ceramic
Gualdo Tadino has always been considered one of the homelands of the ceramics. Traces of this art, as an ancient furnace, were found in the archaic site of Colle Moors, due to pre-Roman times.In the sixteenth century ceramics Gualdese is finished by luster, in the next century are beginning to establish the first dynasty of potters such as local and Pignani Biagioli. The nineteenth century is recorded a strong increase in production of technical ceramic with the recovery of gold and ruby metallic lustres by Paolo Rubboli (1838-1890), who will now work with talented artists, including the famous painter Giuseppe Discepoli. This is the context of the extraordinary production, not only reflected by Alfredo Santarelli. From there begins a production of artistic majolicas of the highest quality, with the birth of numerous factories, gives gualdo tadino to the definitive connotation of pottery town making it the most important twentieth-century Italian center for the production of majolica tradition mastrogiorgesca.
Ceramic luster
Lustre is an ancient decorative technique that, by applying a mixture of metal salts and clay thinned with vinegar, and a special cooking, produce iridescent color effects, yellow gold, ruby red, silver. Middle Eastern in origin, the luster was widespread in ceramics Arab, arriving in mid-fifteenth century Deruta and a few other Italian centers.The luster is applied by brush on the surfaces of objects already finished, glazed and cooked, usually in the spaces provided already left by the painter at the time of decoration. So prepared, the objects are baked and cooked for the third time.