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The house of the weaving and of the bride from the madonie.

Description: Materials and executive techniques: in a corner of the first section of the trusses and into the crafts section of the museo delle madonie, Vincenzo Piccione has made the faithful reconstruction of a domestic environment for the weaving process and the preparation of the bride’s outfit of the madonie. Through the allocation of findings […]

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Bottega del “lignamaru” (agro-pastoral carpenter)

Description: In a room of the madonie museum, almost adjacent to the shepherd’house, vincenzo piccione has made the faithful reconstruction of a joiner’s shop, the so-called “bottega del lignamaru” addressed to the wood manifacturing and to the productionto the work of wood and the preparation of some local tools to use inside the domestic and […]

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African oil-lamp

Description: X-shaped oil-lamp of the Atlas decorated with an embossed goat on the disk. Mould made object in relief.

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Offerer with a piglet

Description: Figured backed clay of a female offerer dressed with a high headgear covered by a long veil. She has a piglet in her hands.

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Lekane in the Gnathia style

Description: Lekane in the Gnathia style (Hellenistic Age, end of the 4th Century and beginning of the 3rd BC). The lid is decorated with a white overpainted plant branch and with brown details. A flower with brown and white overpainted triangular petals decorates the upper face of the lid’s grip.

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Picture of Giuseppe Migneco (1957) whose title is : Figure

Description: Figure intent on supporting a weight (not visible in the work) made with a mixed technique on paper. These solitary figures (strictly Sicilian) and the glimpses of everyday life evoke the atmosphere of an expressionism very close to that of Francis Bacon.

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“General on horseback”

Description: Painted by Franz Borghese which can be traced back to the second half of the 20th Century. The painting (oil on canvas), of an extraordinary chromatic beauty, shows a general on horseback. The work evokes the period where there was a pictorial style based on the lights and directed with a poetic tone by the master Franz Borghese.

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“The dance of the spike’s death” by Gianbecchina (1981), oil on canvas

Description: In this picture, Gianbecchina gives a slice of country life. One more time, he wants to describe some scenes of rural life far away from every social riot, as he did in many other paintings. His work has become a nice tale now.

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“Naked people on the balcony” by Gianbecchina (1937), oil on canvas

Description: In this picture, the Roman life’s memory is very deep. The total volume, the colour’s density, the cut out shapes remind of the Fauves and even more of Matisse. The subject is that of a conversation during a hot summer day.

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“Back of Gangi“ by Gianbecchina (1983), oil on canvas

DESCRIPTION: In this painting, Gianbecchina represents the landscape with small touches. Not large fields of colour, but some splashes on the canvas. For the painter everything is becoming evanescent in an overview that works as a perfect score.

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