Il paliotto con l’Immacolata della Basilica di San Francesco d’Assisi di Palermo

Abstract

The article deals with the frontal of the basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi in Palermo made on the occasion of the centenary of the entrustment of the city of Palermo to the Immaculate Conception. The velvet and silver foil artefact is contextualized in the historical artistic production of the first thirty years of the eighteenth century. Iconographic and iconological analysis is also carried out.