Resumen de Una traccia per il "Monocolo di Racalmuto"
A remarkable "Aeneas Fleeing from Troy" appeared on the art market a little over twenty years ago as a work by the Flemish artist Joos van Winghe (1544-1603). Such an attribution certainly gives credit to the painting's quality but misunderstands the particularities of style; it is in fact a singular and significant product of western Sicilian art in the period between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Judging by its style, one can attribute this painting to the rare Pietro d'Asaro, who was known as "il Monocolo di Racalmuto" because of his conspicuous (one-eye) impairment. Monocolo was the author of several sacred subjects, located between Palermo and the region of Agrigento, but also turned his skill to still life painting.This addition to his oeuvre allows us to re-examine the multi-layered culture of an artist who worked in Genoa, Rome and certainly Naples.
