The Battle of Lepanto, in stucco, by Giacomo Serpotta
The Italian sculptor Giacomo Serpotta's stucco panel on the rear wall of the Oratorio del Rosario di Santa Cita (St Zita) in Palermo depicts scenes from the New Testament and of the Battle of Lepanto. Two images of the rear wall are below the break.
'[Serpotta's] “secret” was to add marble dust to the lime and plaster that hitherto had normally been used to make the stucco: this marble dust gave the statues an exceptional surface brilliance. This technique’s drawback was that the stucco had to be worked with great rapidity before it dried out, which meant that the artist had to be particularly imaginative in the way he improvised faces, gestures, and ornamentations.'
Source: Itinerari Serpottiani.
Oratorio del Rosario di Santa Cita (St Zita) in Palermo
stucco by Giacomo Serpotta
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Oratorio del Rosario di Santa Cita (St Zita) in Palermo
stucco by Giacomo Serpotta
Battle of Lepanto is in center above doorway
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