As it is the month of the Sacred Heart, I wanted to share some sculptures of the Sacred Heart that were created by the studio of Mussner G. Vincenzo Ars Sacra, located in Ortisei, Italy. Many of our readers will already be familiar with this atelier of course, but for those who are not, Mussner G. Vincenzo work using traditional materials and methods. Wood-carving is their particular speciality and so what you are seeing here are not the cookie-cutter, hollow plaster statues that one buys out of a catalogue, but rather hand-carved, wooden sculptures that have then been paint and gilt -- and as you'll see here, this can range from very simple colour schemes, to rather more ornate one's as is more typical in countries located around the Mediterranean.
Statues like these -- I speak here of traditional, wood-carved sculptures in general -- are what our standard ought to be for liturgical art. Far better to have a few good and noble pieces of liturgical art than to have many more but of much lower quality.
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| Detail showing some of the decorative stencilling |
Of course, we've chosen here to focus on the Sacred Heart since June is the month of the Sacred Heart, but if you'd like to see what else Mussner G. Vincenzo has to offer, we'd invite you to visit their website and on Facebook.
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