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# 70 • OCTOBER 19 , 2015
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ITALIAN ART:
GIACOMO SERPOTTA
By Enrico De Iulis
Speaking of Italian Baroque is always
very generalizing and sometimes an
understatement. There are examples
of Baroque in every region of Italy
and usually they have different properties with very connotative details
and a final yield always recognizable
as belonging to that place. Rome,
Lecce, Naples and Venice are the
most famous bits of an architectural
style always assimilated with Italy.
But it maybe is in Sicily that the baroque flourishes in a truly entrenched
way, creating generations of style
and variety of outcomes in buildings and churches, also because of the
wide diversity of materials that the
island has always been able to offer.
We will argue in the next few months about the Val di Noto, while today
we want to tell about the more purely
decorative aspect with the greatest
plasterer in the history of Italian art:
Giacomo Serpotta.
The "Stucco" is an artistic technique
based on the speed of drying of a
layer of lime and plaster that agglo18 | WE THE ITALIANS
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