Over 60 years of history…
a company in the antiques and antiquities trade present on TV
“In the early 1960s Ivano Costantini moved from Rome to London to join his established antiquarian father and embark on this lifelong experience.
After countless experiences at the international level, in 2000 the company Telearte was founded in Rome, with the intent and mission of introducing and proposing antiques to the general public of commercial television through the instrument of informative telesales.
Furniture, paintings, jewelry, objects and works of art that tell of eras and people. Thanks to the great and deep experience of our staff members, who are proven experts in the field, we are continuously active and looking for business initiatives concerning the art world.”
"The Last Don Quixote" Ivano Costantini
Telearte is the natural transposition to TV, and now to the Internet, of the more than ten years’ experience of a man who has chosen to be at one with art objects and with what they represent, that is, the testimony of a past time, loaded with meanings that become a sign of conscious change.
Ivano Costantini has been referred to by some as “The Last Don Quixote”; in fact, like Cervantes’ character, he becomes a true hero, after, mocked and considered insane by many, he never gave himself up. Born and raised in the alleys of central Rome, where he was able to breathe the air of the old stores of prominent antique dealers, he landed in London when he was only sixteen, following in his father’s footsteps. His path, made up of encounters and events bordering on the fictional, was undoubtedly enriched by his innate “flair” for discovering small art treasures.
After traveling halfway around the world, he returned to Rome and, accompanied by his “steed,” decided to embark on a new adventure in as yet unexplored spaces. It was the late 1970s and Italy was a booming country.
This man has a goal: to have art discovered and antiques made known on television. He refuses to live in a world where there is no knowledge, because by wandering the world, and filling his eyes with the beauty that speaks to the soul, he has satisfied all his senses through the muse par excellence: Art. And so his goal and sole purpose become the search for a medium through which others can also find the space to dream, search and thus create a new world, to be discovered and reinvented. Now is the time to invent this new world: draw its outlines, imagine its sounds, and create its colors.
It is the dawn of antiques selling on TV for Telearte company. This was, is, and will be his greatest dream, elusive and illusory, the revenge of the human need to love and to convey feeling through an object that becomes a concrete example of an ephemeral and total beauty, fighting, like Don Quixote, against the windmills of a world that deflects its understanding.
Publications
A circular micromosaic tabletop with a central round view of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican in Rome showing the outstretched collonades of the Bernini designed Piazza di San Pietro, the scene framed with a Greek key pattern border and surrounded by twelve more rectilinear scenes of ancient Roman structures. The table’s gilt border is carved on top with double rows of egg-and-dart pattern, and fluted on the sides between four rosettes. The partially gilded pedestal base is composed of three intertwined dolphins, their heads resting upon a tripod plinth with scrolling acanthus feet.
Object history note
Provenance: Ivano Constantini, Rome, 1975.
Round tortoiseshell box, the cover set with a circular mosaic depicting a large rocky mountain supporting wispy foliage, two figures on a road in the foreground and on the right a smaller mountain with structures on top of it. When turned 45 degrees anti-clockwise, the image appears as a man’s face, the foliage forming his hair and eyebrows. Around the border of this image is a French inscription in mosaic.
Object history note
Provenance: Ivano Constantini, Rome, 1975.
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O157761/bonbonniere-unknown/
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Telearte was born as a result of a family tradition of antique dealers. The founder Ivano Costantini grew up in contact with the realities of antique shops, spending his childhood in his father’s business who moved to England. So this passon for the “beautiful” is transferred to television, offering art and antiques that represent history. A close eye is also given to a major topic, valuables.
Today with Telearte, we can boast of running a H24 TV channel, on digital terrestrial at channel 128, where it broadcasts its programming with 12 hours of daily live coverage 7 days a week. Thanks to the publishing group(Sciscione Group) with which we collaborate, we are able to have coverage of about 95 percent of the national territory with our channel, in all regions of Italy (Persidera network operator).
We can count, thanks to this infrastructure, on speaking to the 92 percent of the Italian population that prefers to enjoy the medium of television. Telearte’s intent aims to be the reference in the antique and precious antique trade for this audience. Every day we intend to reach out to people in their homes, offering consistently good proposals and always taking the care and needs of our customers to the forefront. That is why we do not fail to always offer advice on everything related to our presentations, activating services today that are increasingly close to people’s needs.
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- Ivano Costantini – CEO Telearte
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- Emanuela Biafora – Amministrazione
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- Antonella De Angelis – Consulente e Staff tv
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- Vincenzo Di Benedetto – Consulente e Staff tv
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- Gianluca Fiume – Staff tecnico
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- Domenica Leotta – Contabilità
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- Alessandro Ostacolo – Staff tecnico
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- Giorgio Bottai – Consegne
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- Giacomo D’A
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- Paolo Costantini – Relazioni pubbliche e logistica
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- Larissa Jiglova – Magazzino e fornitori
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- Gabriele Iacoboni – Servizi e manutenzione
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- Reza Taheri – Consulente e Staff tv
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- Rossana Villa – Centralino
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- Avv. Alessandra Delia – Consulente legale
DEPARTMENTS
Old paintings
Telearte boasts an extensive collection of ancient paintings, with works ranging from the 15th to the early 20th century. With a particular focus oriented toward seventeenth-century Roman painting, this collection has also always been of interest to collectors of gold fund...
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