In Taranto there is a period of the year when time stands still. This takes place during the Holy Week, locally known as “I Perdoni” (“The Penitents”), and particularly on Holy Thursday and Friday when the city exudes an air of intense emotion, of deep devotional feeling.
Processions such as that of the Addolorata (the “Suffering Virgin”) and the “Misteri” (the “Mysteries”), with its unique alloy of popular tradition and catholic liturgy, masterfully craft and irradiate a lingering atmosphere of spirituality all throughout the city. Main characters of this socioreligious theater are the so called “perdune” - as Taratins call the “perdoni” in their colourful local dialect - but if we care to look beyond the most conspicuous of its dramatic expressions, we will quickly realize that this is, in fact, nothing but a huge collective performance: for in those mystic days of Eastern the whole city gets itself engulfed in the baroque enactment, becoming a single actor. The death and passion of Jesus is relived year after year by everyone to eventually incarnate in the solemn gait of the statues that parade the streets of both the old and the new town quarters. The wooden sculptures are finally bound to take center stage, and when they do, it doesn’t take too powerful an imagination to discover and relish the influence of the great Italian artists showing through them: Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Giotto, Mantegna, Titian, Correggio… they have all been undoubtfully there, all the time: guiding the hands and chisels of those other artists, the unknown craftsmen, sons and daughters of the Italian people, who, over the centuries, have given shape to the rich imagery of Taranto’s Holy Week.
A Taranto c’è un periodo in cui i il tempo si ferma. Questo avviene durante la Settimana Santa di Passione, I Perdoni, ed in particolare il Giovedì e Venerdì Santo quando la città è pervasa da un’atmosfera di intensa emozione, da una partecipazione sentita. Il misticismo che nasce e si sviluppa attorno alle Processioni dell’Addolorata e del Misteri, in cui si fondono tradizione e religiosità, e che vedono protagonisti i “perdune” ma non solo questi, perchè anche il semplice cittadino diviene di un accadimento, la morte e la Passione di Gesù, rivissuto attraverso l’incedere delle statue che percorrone le vie della città vecchia e poi anche le vie più moderne del Borgo. Le sculture lignee diventano protagoniste ed allora con uno sforzo immaginativo, ma non troppo, l’influenza che alcuni grandi artisti italiani come Michelangelo, Giotto Caravaggio, Mantegna,Tiziano, Correggio, hanno potuto avere sugli artigiani che nel corso dei secoli hanno preparato i passi delle varie Settimane di Passione.
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