The Circulation of Alabaster Versions of the Madonna of Trapani in the Mediterranean Area (Sicily, Malta and Spain). An Artistic, Cultural, Religious and Social Phenomenon of the Modern Period

Abstract

This paper deals with the phenomenon of the diffusion of small religious works of art, in particular the alabaster copies of the Madonna of Trapani, in the Mediterranean, between the second half of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and attempts to interpret this diffusion not only within the historical-artistic context but also from a religious, economic and social viewpoint.