Donna Eliana, la principessa di Monte Bonifato
€800,00
Description by the artist
This work of art is called “Donna Eliana, la principessa di Monte Bonifato” (Donna Eliana, the princess of mount Bonifato). Visiting ancient palaces in the historical center of Palermo (but a feature common to all of Sicily), , I discovered the majolica of the 1700. An ancient flavor given by time and aging that I wanted to reproduce with a patina. I apply more glazes to the flat color, the colors overlap giving an ancient flavor and creating an atmosphere lived by time and the past. The past, history and memory in an imaginary attic in which my majolica are placed, which later become the background of my paintings and then widen to become giant. This is how Donna Eliana,the princess of Monte Bonifato, was born. Acrylic painting on wood.
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The artwork in the Sicilian culture
Sicilian majolicas have always been among the most beautiful in the world. The production of master ceramist has evidence since the Neolithic period, about 10,000 years ago, as indeed happened in different parts of the world. But Sicily, as usual, has that extra touch, that extra magic that is given by the fact of having had different dominations and therefore an extraordinary contamination of styles and techniques that make it unique even in this field of art. Beautiful, since the 1500, the majolica floors of ancient Sicilian houses.
Monte Bonifato overlooks the city of Alcamo. Inside a beautiful forest and on top of the ruins of a castle of the 1300 built by the powerful family of Ventimiglia.
(photo) Castello di Monte Bonifato, 1779
