Mazzarino, 1974.<\/p>\n\n
In continuity with his artistic research related to Sicily and its popular traditions, Domenico Pellegrino presents and revives, through the art of illuminations, the ancient legend of the \u201cdark-haired\u201d.<\/p>\n\n
The legend is set in 1100 when the Moors lived in Sicily.<\/p>\n\n
One day one of them, walking through the Kalsa neighborhood, came upon a beautiful woman who spent her time taking care of the plants in her garden.<\/p>\n\n
The Moor, kidnapped by the girl\u2019s charm, without hesitation, enters the garden to declare her love for her.<\/p>\n\n
The woman, amazed by so much audacity, is taken<\/p>\n\n
by an uncontrollable passion for man.<\/p>\n\n
For days they loved each other until she comes to discover that her lover plans a return to his land where his bride and children await him.<\/p>\n\n
Mad of love, the girl then decides to preserve their bond for eternity, beheading the Moor during the night to turn his head into a vase of basil that will grow lusher, watered every day with the tears of the lover who cries her beloved.<\/p>\n\n
Meanwhile, the neighbors, envious of the verdant plant, adorn their balconies with moor\u2019s head vases that are often represented in pairs, joining the young woman\u2019s head with the moor one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3317,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3316","artisti","type-artisti","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n