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Identifying the Unknown Content of an Ancient Egyptian Sealed Alabaster Vase from Kha and Merit’s Tomb Using Multiple Techniques and Multicomponent S…
2020
This article highlights the multianalytical study of exuded liquid from an ancient Egyptian sealed alabaster vase by Master's students in an applied chemistry for cultural heritage course. Master students are introduced to the field of Archaeometry that see the collaboration of experts in different areas of research such as conservators, curators of museums, physicists, chemists, etc. The sample is a residue exuded on the linen strip sealing an ancient Egyptian alabaster vase (inventory number S.8448) from the collection of the Museo Egizio in Turin (Italy). The students start to plan the noninvasive investigation by X-ray fluorescence (XRF), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and ener…
“Maria-nuova Eva”: un’insolita iconografia per un’Immacolata Concezione alabastrina del XVIII secolo
2015
Protagonista dell’articolo è un’inedita Immacolata Concezione in alabastro dorato e dipinto individuata in una collezione privata dell’isola di Malta. Particolarmente affascinante risulta la sua iconografia, che afferma con forza il dogma dell’Immacolata Concezione, e quindi l’assoluta innocenza spirituale della Vergine, ma anche il suo ruolo salvifico svolto in favore dell’umanità intera, privata della redenzione per l’errore commesso dalla progenitrice Eva. The article is dealing with an unpublished Immaculate Conception in gilded and painted alabaster located in a private collection of the island of Malta. Its iconography is very attractive. It firmly establishes the dogma of the Immacul…
La capilla de la Virgen de Campanar en Valencia: tradición popular erigida en erudita retórica visual
2018
This chapel forms part of the parochial church of Campanar, which belongs to the municipality of Valencia. The Virgen de Campanar (Virgin of Campanar) is an image executed in alabaster, discovered on the subfloor of the church of this place on February 19th, 1596, by some construction workers who were undertaking some remodeling at that time. From that moment forward it began to be worshipped by the masses as a miraculous image. Among its alleged properties we find the mysterious fact that powder from its plaster had miraculous effects: it was taken dissolved in water to cure the sick or to assure a healthy birth for pregnant women, and it even calmed storms at sea if it was thrown into the…
La Madonna di Trapani di Nino Pisano e i suoi epigoni
2020
La scultura della Madonna di Trapani del Santuario dell’Annunziata, riferita a Nino Pisano, che introduce l’iconografia della Vergine in amorevole colloquio, favorì la produzione di numerose copie del simulacro marmoreo sin dal XV secolo. Tra le tarde riproposizioni viene inserita la statua alabastrina della Madonna con il Bambino del Museo Diocesano di Palermo. The sculpture of the Madonna of Trapani of the Santuario dell'Annunziata, referring to Nino Pisano, who introduces the iconography of the Virgin in loving conversation, favoured the production of numerous copies of the marble simulacrum since the 15th century. The alabastrine statue of the Madonna and Child of the Diocesan Museum of…
Scheda XXX San Francesco da Paola
2019
A precious alabaster sculpture depicting San Francis of Paola, a work by craftsmen of Trapani of the late seventeenth century, is jealously guarded by the museum of the convent of San Francesco in Valletta
The Circulation of Alabaster Copies of the Madonna of Trapani in the Mediterranean Area
2019
The diffusion of small religious works of art in the Mediterranean, in particular the alabaster copies of the fourteenth-century marble sculpture of the Madonna of Trapani, between the second half of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is very know. But it is important to interpret this diffusion not only within the historical-artistic context but also from a religious, economic and social viewpoint.
Piccole meraviglie in alabastro, avorio e corallo: nuove aggiunte alle arti decorative siciliane a Malta
2017
L’articolo tratta di alcune inedite opere d’arte decorativa in alabastro, avorio e corallo di collezione privata maltese che, per motivi sia tecnici che stilistico-compositivi, possono riconoscersi come manufatti trapanesi del XVIII secolo. The article deals with some unpublished alabaster, ivory and coral decorative arts kept in a Maltese private collection that, for technical and stylistic-compositional reasons, can be recognized as 18th century artifacts from Trapani.
Deepening Inside the Pictorial Layers of Etruscan Sarcophagus of Hasti Afunei: An Innovative Micro-Sampling Technique for Raman/SERS Analyses
2019
The Hasti Afunei sarcophagus is a large Etruscan urn, made up of two chalky alabaster monoliths. Dated from the last quarter of the third century BC, it was found in 1826 in the small town of Chiusi (Tuscany- Il Colle place) by a landowner, Pietro Bonci Casuccini, who made it part of his private collection. The noble owner&rsquo