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The cult and the art of crib flourished in Naples in the early decades of'500 in the likeness of what the first three centuries made into the raw poverello of Assisi.
A Charles III of Bourbon và given credit for having started with the fine taste crib eighteenth century, which built with his hands and with the help of his wife Amalia which was entrusted with the task of dressing with the inimitable elegance numerous figures that populated the Christmas scene.
Mantennero alive the tradition successors:
Ferdinand IV and Crown Prince Francis cribs were set up in Caserta and other sites where real wanted to spend Christmas;
Ferdinand II with a magnificent crib in the palace of Caserta.
In realization of all the cribs is constantly followed by a single criterion.
The event is divided into three frameworks characteristic: The announced, the Mystery, the Tavern:
The angel bear glad tidings to the shepherds sleeping next to their flock
The Nativity represented under the ruins of a pagan temple wanted to represent the triumph of Christianity on 'ancient pagan civilizations
"diversorium" or tavern is the element that has suffered the greatest alteration and where the imagination has dominated sovereignty.
The Figuraro active manufactured pastors intended to create all'impareggiabile Crib Napoletano.
The shepherds were made up of three elements: the terracotta painted head, the body modelled on a lightweight skeleton of iron wire that supports a proper filling of tow, hands and lower extremities wooden carved and painted, the figures of ' 700 did not exceed the 35-40 cm. Among the "figurarum sculptores" said figurari, the first to mention the Sammartino that Neapolitans define the "Donatello of figurari" the pastor was created by artists such as: Matthew Bottiglieri, Nicola Sum, Camillo Celebrano, Angelo Viva, Moscow Lorenzo and Salvatore Franco…
The first student of Sammartino was Giuseppe Gori, who, for the way they ended the figures and modellava hair, was higher than its master.
In giving life to many animals which have always played an important role on the crib is distinguished brothers Nicola and Xavier Vassallo, Francesco Gallo and Thomas Schettino.
Of the cribs artistic there is someone in private collections, jealously preserved, among those miraculously saved should be mentioned, of course, the beautiful crib donated by Cuciniello the Charterhouse of St. Martin in 1879 and stored in the museum. The crib Cuciniello (photo) represents a "chapter of the Gospel translated into Neapolitan dialect."
Even today the tradition of Artistic crib
is among the most expensive to Neapolitans rich in culture and
costumes reflecting in a tangible way the
culture of an era, that of Naples eighteenth.
I with my work I try to make a modest contribution
this chapter of history that has characterized much and that is
a source of pride for our Naples, trying to
partially relive those emotions transmitted from interpretations
unfortunately unattainable
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