Crib - Varese
throughout the world during the Christmas period, in churches, homes along the narrow streets, squares and courtyards, where Christians celebrate the incarnation of God, the custom of erecting cribs .
The first, according to tradition, born from the desire to San Francisco to revive in a natural birth in Bethlehem. Took place in Greccio, a small village near Assisi, he wanted to represent the nativity scene that everyone, even the most humble, understood the deeper meaning of that event.
Sacro Monte di Varese 2010
Christmas Eve of 1223 Francis staged a nativity scene in a cave: Jesus, Mary and Joseph were played by real people, real as they were the ox and the donkey.
people come in procession to the cave and ran out of words seemed to be right in front of the Holy Family in Bethlehem. The crib is set up well, liked it so much that the custom soon spread throughout the Catholic world.
Over the centuries, statues of wood, clay and wax replaced people in the flesh and the simple nativity scene was enriched by elements of the landscape and many other characters.
Crib - Sacro Monte Varese
The first model old crib still, come to us, is made by Arnolfo di Cambio in 1280 approx., Which you still hold only a few statues in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, and later the crib spread from the second half of the fifteenth century, in Naples, Tuscany and Northern Italy.
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people come in procession to the cave and ran out of words seemed to be right in front of the Holy Family in Bethlehem. The crib is set up well, liked it so much that the custom soon spread throughout the Catholic world.
Over the centuries, statues of wood, clay and wax replaced people in the flesh and the simple nativity scene was enriched by elements of the landscape and many other characters.
The first model old crib still, come to us, is made by Arnolfo di Cambio in 1280 approx., Which you still hold only a few statues in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, and later the crib spread from the second half of the fifteenth century, in Naples, Tuscany and Northern Italy.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth century take on particularly important specimens Genoese wooden statuettes made of finely carved and decorated by artists such as AM and G. Maragliano Pittaluga, and the Neapolitans, intensely rich and spectacular, lavish of which supersedes all the mystical tradition of the previous year. These extraordinary compositions gave their contribution as well as artists such as DA Vaccaro and G. Sammartino, workers potters, goldsmiths and other craftsmen who embellished and overload performance.
This tradition has become widespread in many European countries, including Spain, where the crib strongly characterizes the Christmas and throughout the Christian world.
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