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# 74 •nECEMBER 14 , 2015
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ITALIAN HANDCRAFTS:
Nativity Scene Craft
By Camera di Commercio di Napoli with Unioncamere
Naples has always been a
place of strong contrasts,
so it is only natural that nativity scenes, the extraordinary “product” of the local
artisan production, would
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become embroiled in this
and become the basis on
which all these contradictions miraculously converge and are formed. The
Neapolitan tradition of
nativity scenes can be traced back to the fifteenth
century, as firmly demonstrated by the polychrome wood representations
made by the brothers Ala-