Moor shepherd with jars, 18 cm Tripi

Moor shepherd with jars, 18 cm Tripi.
The young woman, with difficulty, manages to walk and carry the heavy clay jars. She makes her way through the crowd, however the crowds are push on the opposite side. As she wonders where everyone is going, she turns around and notices that the sky is illuminated by a huge star. In awe, she stops to observe its extraordinary brilliance. Someone murmurs that a very special child was born: the Savior was born.
Every statue in Angela Tripi's nativity is characterized by a strong attention to detail.
Angela Tripi takes inspiration from the ancient Arab world for the creation of her figures and, by appropriately reworking the history and customs, comes to her own personal interpretation of the characters of the time.
Normally the statues of the traditional nativity scene, for example the Neapolitan one, are made with a skeleton, fabrics, and terracotta ends (the head, hands and feet). Instead, the statues of the artist Angela Tripi have completely formed bodies: they are modeled naked and then dressed with fabrics and small jewels. In her works the artist tells a story: each statue is depicted in a moment of their life, thus managing to make us understand the existence of a before and after. Angela Tripi manages to give each nativity statue an amazing realism, never seen before and unrepeatable: no two works will ever be the same, rending them one of a kind.