Maria Grazia Vitale

La catanesella

Name: La catanesella
SKU: 7380
Price: 150.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Scarves Cotton

Single artwork

€150,00

Description by the artist

Here it is La Catanesella (the from Catania). Scarf in light cotton fabric, painted with reliefs decoration of Palazzo Biscari in Catania. The scarf wide and light, reproduces in its handmade painting with colors suitable for fabric, the reliefs skillfully modeled by stonemasons and skilled craftsmen of the Baroque period, which rebuilt with a new face the city after the terrible earthquake of 1693.
The model and painting can be redesigned. Please agree on the measurements and fabric with the seller.

Details and dimensions

Materials: Cotton

Dimensions (cm): Height 160, Width 110

Handcrafted in Sicily

The artwork in the Sicilian culture

By the Governance of Sicilian Artisan Foundation

Palazzo Biscari is a beautiful palace in Sicilian Baroque style in the heart of the city of Catania, a few steps from Piazza Duomo, Via Etnea and the famous fish market. It was built in 1763 and was visited by some of the most famous people of the time, including the writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe on May 3, 1787.

Photo Catania, city and the smoking volcano seen from the sea, 1729

Fabric Painting

Maria Grazia Vitale

Art for me is finding a safe haven, listening to the evolution of ideas that are formed within me and with still so much to discover

The Governance also suggests

The objective of the Governance is both to safeguard the traditions and ancient crafts of the people of Sicily, and to sustain economically the Artisans and the Artists, both the real ethno-anthropologists of the country.