Francesca Gucciardi

Madonna con Cristo deposto

Name: Madonna con Cristo deposto
SKU: 7751
Price: 480.00 EUR
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Paintings Glass painting

Single artwork

€480,00

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Description by the artist

The painting depicts “Our Lady of Sorrows with the Deposed Christ” (Madonna con Cristo deposto in Italian), with putti holding some symbols of the crucifixion.

The painting, a re-elaboration of an ancient engraving, has been realized with oil paints and golden varnish to embellish the decorative details and subjected to a process of aging in order to recreate the characteristics of an ancient painting. 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.

Details and dimensions

Materials: Glass painting

Dimensions (cm): Height 42, Width 33, Depth 1

Weight (kg): 1

Handcrafted in Sicily

The artwork in the Sicilian culture

By the Governance of Sicilian Artisan Foundation

Among the various schools of glass painting in Europe and Italy, that of the Pincisanti (painters of saints), had a particular resonance in Sicily between the nineteenth and early twentieth century. These were craftsmen-artists who made paintings on glass commissioned by the most varied social classes and that were placed in homes, especially as bedside tables in the bedrooms. The saint or the religious scene to be depicted was almost always commissioned by the buyer in relation to a grace received or to some particularly venerated protector.

PhotoSyracuse, Cathedral, 1835

Pincisanti - Glass Painting

Francesca Gucciardi

"Art is the soul's need to show its face"

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.