Bambinello disteso

“The Baby Jesus lying down” (Bambinello disteso in Italian), is a very common subject in the popular art of glass painting and represents a symbol of Christmas, the Nativity. The painting was made with oil paints,it belongs to a series of my creation called “Vintage”, characterized by the use of frames and antique glass sheets and a process of “antiquing” of the painted surface, the result of a personal experimentation developed and refined over the years, which simulates corrosion and the fall of color giving the painting a realistic effect of “old”.  The glass painting is an ancient painting technique almost disappeared, whose peculiarity is to realize the subjects according to a “specular” perspective, so that at the end of the work the glass sheet must be “turned”, to show the correct side that will be clearly visible thanks to the transparency of the glass. In order to obtain the correct pictorial result, the artist will have to proceed by superimposing various layers of paint, inserting, first, the decorative details of the subject, and then finish with the larger parts.