Ubaldo Vitali (born 1944) is an American

silversmith A silversmith is a metalworker who crafts objects from silver. The terms ''silversmith'' and ''goldsmith'' are not exactly synonyms as the techniques, training, history, and guilds are or were largely the same but the end product may vary grea ...

and conservator. He is a 2011

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Life

He studied at the

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, the

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, and the Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome. He moved to the United States in 1967. His workshop is at 188 Hilton Avenue, Maplewood, New Jersey. His work has appeared in the

Newark Museum The Newark Museum of Art (formerly known as the Newark Museum), in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, is the state's largest museum. It holds major collections of American art, decorative arts, contemporary art, and arts of Asia, A ...

, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the

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, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Vitali was featured on a January 29, 2012 episode of

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's ''

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''.

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* *http://www.smpub.com/ubb/Forum17/HTML/000454.html *http://www.liceoripetta.it/ 1944 births American silversmiths MacArthur Fellows Italian emigrants to the United States Living people {{US-artist-stub