Patrizio Arabito

Landscape of Motta Sant’Anastasia

Name: Landscape of Motta Sant’Anastasia
SKU: 3099
Price: 4800.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Paintings Oil on canvas

Single artwork

€4.800,00

Description by the artist

It is a view that struck me very much, seen from a particular and original perspective, which highlights the dense colors near the castle and the chromatic variety of the environment.

Details and dimensions

Materials: Oil on canvas

Dimensions (cm): Height 70, Width 50

Handcrafted in Sicily

The artwork in the Sicilian culture

By the Governance of Sicilian Artisan Foundation

Motta Sant’Anastasia is a small village in eastern Sicily, close to Mount Etna. It has curiously developed on a huge basaltic cliff of 500 thousand years ago which, as if it were a nest, contains houses and churches of Motta. Seen from a distance Motta appears to be lying on this cliff of cooled lava, with the imposing shape of Etna in the background and a Norman tower (XI century), clearly built in lava stone, which stands out among the houses of the village. It was built by Roger I during the conquest of Sicily, along with two others close to it (Paternò and Adrano). There was to fight the Saracens!

(photo) Etna is on fire in this 1550 map of Sicily