La magic that a person can have in their hands it can be turned into pure magic as happened with those of Giovanni Strazza and his great genius to get beyond the frontier in which something material can become an object that almost has life; or at least that it is capable of imitating it in such a way that it leaves us speechless surprised by its thousands of details.
This is what happens with the Veiled Virgin of Strazza. An impressive sculpture that is capable of taking anyone's breath away that has no idea of art. His great ability to go beyond that moment in which it seems rather that we are facing the perfect figure of a person, is what leaves no one indifferent and has made this work timeless.
Giovanni Straza was a renowned Italian sculptor (1818-1875) who was born in Rome. In the mid-XNUMXth century Italian nationalism was in uage and there was a resurgence of nationalism in the arts and music of Italy.
The Veiled Virgin is one of those pieces that they were born from the Italian nationalist art school. The image of a veiled woman was one of the favorite subjects of the same school of young sculptors, among which were Pietro Rossi and Rafaello Monti, as the maximum examples of it.
Have existedor marble busts that sculpt a veiled woman in other countries such as Canada or England, although none has been able to reach the meticulousness of the one created by Strazza.
Their facial features and braids in hair are some of the details that separate this sculpture from many others. A perfect gem of art, as Bishop John Thomas Mullock put it in his journal in 1856.
The Strazza sculpture relive the naivety of the Baroque and represents the maximum triumph of the most technical aspect of a work of this entity; Scarpella also tries it on her busts.
Wonderful!