Naples is undoubtedly the most devoted city to the history and cult of cribs: indeed a 1025 document already reported about a church of Santa Maria ad praesepe (now lost) and again in 1324 a ‘chapel of the nativity scene at Di Alagni residence’ was...
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Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.
Like other members of the A.I.A.P (Italian Association of the Friends of the Nativity Scene) of Naples, for Antonia Santoro (born in Casagiove, 19 February 1963), working on a nativity scene is a passion inherited from his father, who used to work...
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“She had entered the workshop of Peppino Ascione, her cousin who manufactured the Saints. The shop was small, and the five or six Saints, large, natural, made of carved wood, filled it. Actually, Peppino Ascione only made their heads, hands...
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