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Emblemática mariana. Flores de Miraflores de Fray Nicolás de la Iglesia
2009
Fray Nicolás de la Iglesia, prior de la Cartuja de Burgos, mandó decorar una capilla dedicada a la Virgen con emblemas marianos. Poco después, entre 1653-54, los insertó —añadiendo otros nuevos, hasta un total de cincuenta y uno— en un libro dedicado exclusivamente a la Inmaculada titulado: Flores de Miraflores, hieroglificos sagrados, verdades figuradas, sombras verdaderas del Mysterio de la Inmaculada Concepción de la Virgen y Madre de Dios María Señora nuestra. Se da así la circunstancia de que un conjunto pictórico origina una obra escrita. En este artículo se analizan los jeroglíficos creados por fray Nicolás explicando sus fuentes y significado. Friar Nicolás de la Iglesia, prior of t…
Mario di Laurito, Madonna dell’Itria, 1529-1536
2022
Observations on the canvas, due to the brush of Mario de Laurito, an elegant painter of composite culture active between Naples and Sicily in the first half of XVI century, it came to the Diocesan Museum of Palermo from the local church of the archconfraternity of the Santissima Annunziata "outside Porta San Giorgio "(late fifteenth - early sixteenth century, for which Travagliato 2010) fortunately shortly before the allied bombings on Palermo which between April and May 1943 caused the destruction (Guiotto 1946).
Pittore attivo in Sicilia nella seconda metà del XV secolo, Madonna dell’Itria
2022
The complex conservative history of the work, the Madonna dell’Itria, executed in fresco, detached from the back wall of the presbytery of the eponymous sacred building and restored in 1990, then transferred to the Diocesan Museum of Palermo
FROM Δηομένη TO Madonna dell’Itria... AND VICEVERSA. TWO MARIAN ICONOGRAPHIES SUPERIMPOSED IN A “PALIMPSEST WALL” OF MARSALA (TP)
2019
During a recent restoration in an underground chapel in Marsala (TP), the wall to which the altar is attached proved to be a palimpsest of several layers. The oldest dated back from the late twelfth to early thirteenth century displaying a “velarium” in the lower register. Overhead we see a Madonna in prayer (Δηομένη) preceded by a theory of Saints. A second layer, from the 15th century, decisively changes the original iconography thus transforming it into the typically Sicilian iconography of the “Madonna dell’Itria”. The Child, positioned in the center of the Mother’s breast, sits inside a chest supported by two old chants. The latter devotional image, due to the perishability of the plas…