Sacred Art - Room V
The course of the fifth room begins with four examples of polychrome wooden sculptures, whose production thrived in Abruzzo both for the abundance of the raw materials, and for the response which the wooden statuary offered to the devotional needs of the faithful. The work of art, datable to the XVII century and sculptured in a single full trunk, depicts San Pietro, San Benedetto, Sant’Andrea and San Paolo with the respective iconographic attributes and they are included in the circle of local and popular art.
Moreover two paintings on canvas from the XVII century are exhibited. The first one, depicting la Trinita’ with San Nicola and San Rocco, characterized by the immobility of the figures and by a rhetoric sentimentalism, belonging to the Counter-Reformation artistic production of a Neopolitan circle. The second painting which depicts the Crocifissione, notwithstanding the precarious conditions of preservation due to the state of neglect in which it remained for a long time, reveals the presence of an artistic personage capable of a vigorous plastic language and of a skilful use of light.
A wooden tabernacle concludes the course of the room. It has the shape of a small temple and is the work of a good craftsman of the XVIII century.
