This painted wood crucifix is currently displayed in front of painted wood panels with images of Mary and St. John the Evangelist at the center of what looks to be a Baroque altarpiece, inscribed with the phrase ""Altare ...

This painted wood sculpture was created in 1775, along with the wooden architectural membering of the altarpiece in which it stands, for the Chiesa Matrice in Putignano. The two flanking sculptures (St. Sebastian and St. ...

This Nativity scene in the Chiesa Matrice in Putignano was thought to be a work by the shop of Stefano da Putignano and thus sixteenth-century, but now scholars have shown (through documentary and stylistic evidence) that ...

This statue of St. Onuphrius by an unknown artist is placed beside the statue of St. John in the Chapel of St. John, in the Cathedral of Lecce. The patron of the chapel was the Abbot Onofrio Manesi, a wealthy member of the ...

This Paduan terracotta sculpture of the Madonna and Child was purchased by the Pinacoteca in Bari in 2002. The Virgin, head turned slightly to the right, looks down at Christ, whom she holds in her right arm. Although the ...

This painted stone sculpture of St. Vitus in the Chiesa Matrice in Putignano was made in 1575 (date inscribed on the base), in the style of Stefano da Putignano, the earlier sculptor who achieved local fame, especially in ...

These four busts of martyrs, currently placed in what looks to be a later Baroque altar along with monstrances and an earlier crucifix, are housed in Santa Maria degli Angeli in Cassano delle Murge, which was in the ...

The Chapel of St. John the Baptist is the first chapel on the left side of the Lecce Cathedral. The altarpiece, painted in white and gold, is attributed to Giuseppe Zimbalo 1620-1710. In the central niche is a sculpture ...

This statue of St. Clement by an unknown artist is located in the Chapel of St. John the Baptist in the Cathedral of Lecce. The patron of the chapel was the Abbot Onofrio Manesi, a wealthy member of the local nobility and ...

This small wooden statue is one of a pair depicting scenes from the Passion of Christ. The statues flank the large crucifix in the last chapel on the left of the central nave of San Francesco d'Assisi in Matera. Christ is ...