Sacro Cuore

Paintings Glass painting
Single artwork

350,00

Description by the artist

The Sacred Heart represents the symbol of Jesus’ unconditional love for humanity. The painting, a re-elaboration of an ancient engraving, was made with oil paints and belongs to a series of my creation called “Vintage”, characterized by the use of frames and antique glass sheets and a process of “antiquing” of the painted surface, the result of a personal experimentation developed and refined over the years, which simulates corrosion and the fall of color giving the painting a realistic effect of “old”.  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.

 

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Materials: Glass painting
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.

Photo Agrigento, interior of the cathedraltoward the apse, 1894

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