Discovered three years in the past within the ‘cantoria’ of the church devoted to them in Marsala, the 2 wood statues depicting Saints Peter and Paul, which date again to the sixteenth century, have been restored. It was troublesome to go to the loft of the choir as a result of the steps have been now not there, however the priest, Don Vito Buffa, the rector of the church within the historic middle of Marsala, which has been hooked up to the well-known complicated of St. Peter since 2021, noticed. statue and, with the intervention of an installer, the existence of the 2 statues was found, which are actually, restored by Gaetano Alagna, given to the town.
“The 2 treasured works – explains a be aware from the Diocese of Mazara del Vallo – are manufactured from poplar wooden hollowed out inside, date again to the sixteenth century and belong to the church that was a part of the monastic complicated. It was San Pietro an was first made, in keeping with the primary investigation, within the early sixteenth century, the Saint was sculpted, in its unique manufacture, with an extended copy From right here, there’s nonetheless a portray within the again half that Gaetano Alagna restored it again to to its magnificence”.
“No half was built-in – explains Alagna – solely the keys within the palms have been despatched to St. Peter and the sword in a single hand to St. Paul”. A statue of St. Paul, nevertheless, was created shortly after that of St. Peter, most likely across the center of the sixteenth century. “The 2 works aren’t signed or dated – explains the historian Maurizio Vitella – however, by way of the comparative methodology, we will hypothesize that the work of San Pietro was commissioned from the workshop of Matinati in Messina, and doubtless that of San Paolo. within the western space which could be very near the language of Lo Cascio’s workshop”.
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