Moor woman with clothes basket on head 18 cm nativity Angela Tripi

Moor woman with clothes basket on head 18 cm nativity Angela Tripi.
The woman on her head holds a basket full of clothes as she goes to a spring of water to wash her masters' fabrics. The slave has a blank and resigned look to the hard and tiring work that she has to carry out every day. He lives dreaming of his freedom and hoping for a better future.The terracotta statues are completely hand made and hand painted in Italy at Angela Tripi's atelier. The statuettes are real works of art executed with skill and attention. The statues of Angela Tripi have a fully formed bodies. They are modeled from terracotta and subsequently dressed with fabrics and small jewels. On the contrary, the statues of the traditional nativity scene are produced with a skeleton covered with fabrics and with the ends in terracotta.Details such as tense muscles, expression lines, tendons, open and defined fingers often emerge clearly. While a figurine of the traditional nativity scene recalls a profession or a character through the stillness of a gesture, observing the statuettes of the Tripi one realizes that there is always a before and an after moment. It is as if the subjects were photographed in a particular time of their life. We are faced with the history of these nativity characters.They are the result of top Italian nativity craftsmanship. Each statue is signed by Angela Tripi.