Presepio: An Expanded View
Exhibition
Exhibition Overview
Presepio: An Expanded View
Susan Earle, curator
Gallery 408, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
This exhibition presents the Museum’s recently conserved presepio nativity ensemble, along with related free-standing figures and featuring new research on the presepio and related figures. The tradition of elaborate presepio displays dates to the time of Saint Francis of Assisi as instructional offerings to churchgoers and other citizens.
Exhibition images
Works of art
circa 1770
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Giuseppe de Luca (active 1700s)
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circa 1770s
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2012–2013
Mariano Salvador de Maella (1739–1819)
circa late 1700s
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