Per una storia della cartapesta del Settecento in Puglia. Un profilo e alcune novità su Pietro Surgente (1742-1827), alias "Mesciu Pietro de li Cristi"

• Autores: Nicola Cleopazzo
• Localización: Confronto: studi e ricerche di storia dell'arte europea, ISSN 1721-6745, Nº. 5, 2022, págs. 139-154
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • The contribution is divided into three parts. In the first, besides examining the principal problems which have not allowed until now an organic and systematic study of papier-mâché from eighteenth century Plugia, some statues either unpublished or little noted, which belong to this environment and are connected to Neapolitan sculptural models are taken into consideration. The second reassesses the critical history of Pietro Surgente (1742-1827), creator of the oldest signed and dated Salento papier-mâché statue, the "St. Lawrence" in Lizzanello (1782). The last section traces the biographical and artistic profile of Surgente, eliminates some works in his catalogue and instead assigns to him the little-known "Madonna del Buon Consiglio e la beata Petruccia" in the Matrice in Spongano. The investigation is supportted by documents, some unpublished, in the Appendix at the end, among which appears the process of the first marraige of the sculptor, celebrated at Lecce in 1763.