Claudia Clemente

I mori oltre la leggenda

Name: I mori oltre la leggenda
SKU: 4521
Price: 900.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Paintings Hand painted wooden board

Single artwork

€900,00

Description by the artist

Immortality, fidelity and purity … only ivy could represent the possibility of changing the fate of the Moors.
The unknown of a legend between love and passion … if he stayed, if she didn’t kill him, if we could change the final …
First prize in the online contest voted on Facebook and Instagram and third prize by the jury.

Details and dimensions

Materials: Hand painted wooden board

Dimensions (cm): Height 42, Width 30, Depth 1

Weight (kg): 0.500

Handcrafted in Sicily

The artwork in the Sicilian culture

By the Governance of Sicilian Artisan Foundation

The Moor’s Heads are a classic representation of artistic Sicily. The Moors bring us back to the Arab domination in Sicily (IX-XI century). The Muslim period lasted almost two centuries but it is the one that has left the biggest imprint, probably, in the rich history of Sicily. Not so much in the monuments (very few) but in the daily life, in the etymology of many words, in the dialect, in the uses and customs. Moors are typical figures which come into play very often in Sicilian culture as for example in the Opera the Puppets or in the legend of the Moor’s heads. They tell of a legend in which a beautiful Sicilian fell in love with an Arab at the time that they reigned in Sicily (IX-XI century), being betrayed by the Moor, she beheaded him in his sleep and hung his head, as if it were a vase, on the balcony, also adorning it with a fragrant basil plant that aroused the admiration of unsuspecting bystanders. In a certain sense, the Arabs have never left Sicily.

(photo) The opera of the puppets