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Sculptors and painters of the eighteenth century in the valley dell'Irno

Particularly proud of the Valley dell'Irno especially in the eighteenth century is the presence of a high level of craftsmanship in painting, sculpture in wood and stone decor. These are activities that can reasonably be included in an important chapter in the history of art itself and that only recently have begun to be highlighted by some studies.

I refer first to the artistic career of Michael Richards that since 1694 (the year of his first signed and dated, the St. Nicholas on the throne for the parish of St. Nicholas in John) in 1753 (his death) leads, with his shop, an activity long and active in the hamlet of Penta and becomes the protagonist required and appreciated in the creation of paintings, frescoes and decorations to the ceilings of churches throughout the Valley and beyond dell'Irno, dall'Avellinese to Salerno. Especially the Franciscans appreciate the work of the master, as evidenced by the monastery church of St. Anthony in Mercato San Severino and the convent of the Trinity in Baroda, but we can say that there is no house that has not dell'Irno Valley intended to rely on art of the illustrious countryman (Mancini 2003).

But we are not dealing with an isolated case. Even the religious sculpture is properly represented. Smoke from Saragnano Nicola, who lived from 1647 to 1725, a disciple of Fanzaga, and creator of wooden statues of excellent workmanship, characterized by a delicate polychrome and drapery large and fluctuating, it was appreciated in his century in an extremely wide. In fact he was called upon to operate beyond the territory of origin, which also contains works fine, the first of Our Lady of Sorrows Church in the Franciscan monastery of Baroda. He was present in Campania, from Avellino (his statue of the Assumption, patroness of the city) in Naples in southern Italy and especially Spain in the church of San Ginés in Madrid, Cadiz and the Military in the church in the mother church of Murcia. An artist in the middle Baroque culture (Pasculli Ferrara 1998) which was recently re-evaluated with an interesting Lecce and shows a scientific conference in Valladolid. From

Vera Arabin, Caterina La Bella, Diego Landi, ancient crafts in the Valley dell'Irno, Salerno 2010, pp. 77