Le Icone S.N.C di Nicolo Avellino & Co.
Cisternino (BR), IT
Details
- Dimensions
- 9.84ʺW × 6.3ʺD × 15.75ʺH
- Styles
- Baroque
- Country of Origin
- Italy
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Stone
- Condition
- Unknown, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Ivory
- Condition Notes
- Very Good — This vintage item has no defects, but it may show slight traces of use. Very Good — This vintage item has no defects, but it may show slight traces of use. less
- Description
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Sicilian Baroque style stone keystone dating back to the 18th century. The hand-sculpted relief figure features the face of a …
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Sicilian Baroque style stone keystone dating back to the 18th century. The hand-sculpted relief figure features the face of a grotesque creature surrounded by leafy decorative elements.
Also known as "mascheroni", these stone elements enriched and decorated the stately palaces, becoming almost the emblem of the baroque decoration of many of the pearls of the Iblean territory: Ragusa, Modica, Scicli, Noto, Syracuse and Catania, just to name a few .
In the late Baroque culture, which violently affects the Iblean territory, one of the characteristic elements is precisely the way of treating, working and making one almost live, so plastic is the result, the corbels and keystones, skilfully carving the stone to create various decorations and allegorical, but above all strange, where "theatricality" becomes the myth to be sought: fantastic, awkward faces, musicians, floral, faunal and animalistic elements; and all decorated with pendants, turbans, beards, laurel leaves.
The masks, with their grotesque and suggestive features, attracted the attention of passers-by with amazement. They represent the transposition of human fears, such as the fear of the unknown, the fight against evil, and therefore, in summary, the uncertainty of life; they represent, all things considered, the face of society.
Wonderful object of great historical and decorative value, purchased from a private collector in Val di Noto, Sicily. This valley and the municipalities that compose it have been part of the UNESCO world heritage since 2002 as they constitute an exceptional testimony to the art and architecture of the late Baroque and represent the culmination and last flowering of the European Baroque. less
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