Cappella Sansevero — ceramic art tile

Cappella Sansevero

Keepsake · 2 in / Glossy / Loose
$22.00
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Cappella Sansevero — ceramic art tile
  • Cappella Sansevero — ceramic art tile
  • Cappella Sansevero — front
  • Cappella Sansevero — scale
  • Cappella Sansevero — gifting
  • Cappella Sansevero — grouping
  • Above the bench, in a warm oak surround.
  • Beside the kettle, propped on the counter.
  • Above the linens, in a slim black surround.
  • On the nightstand, on a light oak stand.
  • On a picture ledge, where the light comes in.
  • Cappella Sansevero — ceramic art tile
  • Cappella Sansevero — front
  • Cappella Sansevero — scale
  • Cappella Sansevero — gifting
  • Cappella Sansevero — grouping
  • Above the bench, in a warm oak surround.
  • Beside the kettle, propped on the counter.
  • Above the linens, in a slim black surround.
  • On the nightstand, on a light oak stand.
  • On a picture ledge, where the light comes in.
Cappella Sansevero

Cappella Sansevero

$22.00
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The chapel sits in a narrow lane behind San Domenico Maggiore, in the old centre of Naples. Inside, beneath a frescoed ceiling, a young man lies under a veil, sculpted entirely in marble by Giuseppe Sanmartino in 1753. The figure is Christ, but the eye keeps catching the cloth: how it lifts, how it folds, how the marble pretends to be linen. Around the nave stand more sculptures, more impossibilities. A woman draped in another veil. A man pulling free of a net carved from the same block as himself. The whole chapel was the Sangro family's, kept quietly behind a small door off the lane.

Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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