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The Festivities In August In Messina And Panebianco’s Transparencies
Half way through August, in 1842, during the secular celebrations for the Patron of Messina, the Madonna of the Letter, with dazzling light decorations, the painter, Michele Panebianco, created a number of transparencies, which were lit from the back to display their magnificently bright colors, in order to adorn the main streets of the city. These transparencies depicted historical scenes […]
Count Ruggero, The Camel And Panebianco
As the very educated artist that he was, Michele Panebianco knew the history of his city well and thus the tradition whereby Count Ruggero entered the city of Messina on the back of a camel. When he depicted this episode in a transparency for the Festivity of the Assumption in 1842, he depicted the Count in the centre of the […]