San Vincenzo Ferrer - (Apulia)

Archconfraternity  SS. Rosary

Foundation year: 1629

City: Bitonto (BA)

Archdiocese: Bari-Bitonto

Artistic artefact (canvas, fresco, statue, etc.): Processional statue

Title: San Vincenzo Ferrer

Dimensions: 150 cm

Year of execution: Year of execution first half of the 18th century.

Author (with year of birth and death): Unknown Neapolitan author

Brief description of the work and of the author's profile: The dressed polymaterial simulacrum wears the habit of the order of the Preachers with the white cassock, the rosary crown at the waist, the scapular and the cape in nigris. In his left hand he holds a crucifix, while his right hand has his index finger pointing upwards. On the forehead the iconographic attribute of the flame of the Holy Spirit.