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Angelo Minghetti started producing ceramics at Imola in 1848. He started his first furnace in Bologna in 1858 and he built another at Malvasia in 1864. From 1877 all works were concentrated in Bologna. His works were much raised at the time and often mistaken for 'antique' (Renaissance) maiolica.

Minghetti too inspiration from his 'heroes' of the Renaissance period, most notably the sculptor Lucca della Robbia, who was famous for his large-scale works in polychrome earthenware.

Since 1869, Minghetti participated in National and International exhibitions. (Bologna 1869; London 1870; Vienna 1873; Naples 1877; Paris 1878; Milan 1883; Turin 1884) In Vienna he showed a huge vase, measuring 2.3 metres.

Minghetti died in 1885.