Blog

Description: Group of statues depicting the scene of a disheveled hetaira (the gap in the center of the chest does not allow other observations), sitting with her legs apart, while she is spanking a “client” kneeling between her legs. The latter rests his head on her left thigh and has a disfigured face, which contrasts […]

Description: Trilobate oinochoe with continuous profile and ribbon handle, from the shoulder to the rim on which it rests. At the ends of the handle two head are applied: a Maenad, above the rim, and a bearded Silenus. It is one of the most significant findings of the significant amount of “fine table pottery” found […]

Description: Rather bulging amphora with high neck and dual rod handles. The A side is decorated with the scene of Herakles strangling the Nemean lion while a winged Nike is about to crown him.  The B side features a bathing scene with a semi-draped woman receiving gifts from a naked cupid. Between scenes, under the […]

Description: Olpe with ovoid body, cylindrical neck and ribbon handle. On each of the two sides (side A and side B) there is the profile of a female face turned to the left, with a flowered and finely drawn hair net. Under the handle, there is a large palmette between spirals with bell-shaped flowers. The […]

Description: Pagenstecher lecythi with characteristic shape with disc foot, ovoid body, high flared lip and handle from the neck to the shoulder. The two vessels are decorated with black figures on a ceramic background, saved and coated with tan-colored engobe, a technique which incorporates the more ancient one consisting of black figures. Each vessel features […]

This photo album is to be considered one of the numerous experimental creations of the students of the “Isnello Ricama” Art School making use of external expertise in a research pathway aimed at the recovery and reuse of techniques (like the filet dating from the 16th century), paying particular attention to new products employing the […]

Description: Modern table-centre made with the round filet technique: the tight mesh takes inspiration from the rose-windows that capture sunlight in the facades of Gothic churches in the Chiaramonte style in Sicily. This type of mesh is little known and has uncertain origins. It is believed that it dates as far back as ancient Egyptian […]

Description: The Nymphalidae include showy species such as the strawberry butterfly (Charaxes jasius) which is common in the bush around Gratteri, but undetectable because it flies high above the trees. Its larva develops on the strawberry tree (armulinu). The Painted Ladies live in the clearings on the edge of the woods; the most original, the Peacock, on whose wings […]

Description: The Golden Eagle (Accitridae order) can be distinguished by its large size, its gliding and sliding flight with few wing beats, the primaries wide apart and sometimes upwards and the tail rather square. The uniformly dark plumage with a yellow gold colour on the head and the neck. It hunts scouring the mountain sides. It can be […]

Description: The box contains some beetles of various families and shows how great are the differences between these creatures. There are the glowworms, that is, the fireflies which emit light from their bodies on the summer nights; the species of the “Cleridi” with red stripes, living as a parasitic on the bees and wasps’ nests or eating the larvae […]