Description Moths, among which there are some species that sometimes multiply excessively harming forests. This is the case of the oak eggar and especially the Lyumantria Dispar that can eat the leaves of an entire forest. The name of Dispar alludes to the fact that the two sexes are very different, since males are rather […]
Description: The old mechanical movement for a tower clock, made by the artisan company Scibetta of Bisaquino, has carried out its fundamental role until about 1980. It was placed inside the civic tower located in the centre of Gratteri and was replaced with a modern electric clock movement. The old hand-wound movement, although potentially still working, needed for the daily […]
Description: The archaeological remains have been found in the ancient abbey of St. George. This comes as the archaeological field. The unique structures in elevation are those of the perimeter of the church, among other structures that do not reach entirely the upper edge of the original masonry. There are only some traces of the two lateral apses. The […]
Description: The find in question – a funerary wax mask with the relative pIaster cast of the 19th Century, belonged to a priest of Geraci who lived at the end of the Century, Don Paolo Verri – and it was retrieved by the form’s compiler in 1983, in an old house of Geraci; it was exposed for […]
Description: In the historical-artistic section of the Museum is to report the remarkable painting of the Transfiguration of Giuseppe De Garbo from Castelbuono (dating to 1794); the pictorial work represents the Gospel story of the Transfiguration of Christ between Moses and Elijah together with the apostles Philip, James and John. The canvas of modest size constituted the high […]
Description: Inside the rich heritage of ancient books reported by the MUSeBArch there are 11 works dating to the 16th Century that include this volume of 1596 together with a valuable incunabulum called “Gregorian Cantorale”. This manual of hunting was written by the emperor Frederick the Second and it is the only ancient book of this typology that […]
Description: In the historical-artistic section of the museum is to report, in addition to the valuable painting of the Transfiguration of Giuseppe De Garbo (1794), the precious little painting of “Mater Salvatoris” probably of a Flemish artist, perhaps dating to the end of the 16 Century and the beginning of the 14th Century (?).The small cloth represents the […]
Description: Materials and executive techniques: In a room of the “Museo delle Madonie”, Vincenzo Piccione has made the faithful reconstruction of a domestic environment of a shepherd’s family of the Madonie through the collocation of some original artefacts of a daily use according to the rules of the tradition; such artefacts can be placed between the end of […]
Description: It constitutes a section of the “Museo delle Madonie” since 2013 and shows a series of museum artefacts concerning the Sicilian popular arts thanks to a valuable collaboration with the Foundation “Ignazio Buttitta” of Palermo, the owner of these artefacts. This precious collaboration, stipulated in 2010 with a special agreement with the municipality of […]
Description: materials and executive techniques: in a room of the madonie museum, almost adjacent to the shepherd’house, vincenzo piccione has made the faithful reconstruction of an agro-pastoral household of the production of bread in the madonie. through the allocation of findings of original ‘daily use in accordance with the rules of the tradition; these findings […]
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