Brescia · Santa Maria Immacolata (Pavonian church)
The life of Mary
The life of Mary told through a monumental mosaic cycle in the Pavonian church in Brescia.
- Setting
- Brescia · Santa Maria Immacolata (Pavonian church)
- Technique and execution
- Mosaic · mosaic execution by Gino Bonazza
- Recorded dimensions
- 20 panels of 8 m² each, according to the historical workshop website.
Mosaic execution: Gino Bonazza. The designer is not identified in the available sources. Sources and attribution ↓
The work and its setting
A story in mosaic.
This cycle belongs to Gino Bonazza’s work for sacred spaces: a sequence of images conceived in relation to the church’s architecture. The archive preserves it alongside the cycle devoted to the life of Lodovico Pavoni, made for the same setting.
The historical description records twenty panels of eight square metres each. The seventeen available photographs form a partial record: their number does not necessarily correspond to the number of works or panels.
Start with the composition of each panel, then enlarge faces, clothing and backgrounds: the image reads as a narrative from a distance and as a weave of colour up close. The photographs also retain the limitations and markings of the original documentation.
View the photographs ↓The photographs
17 preserved photographs. Select an image for a closer look. Use the arrow keys to browse and Esc to return to the page.
Titles and descriptions come from the workshop archive and have been translated from Italian. Archive reference numbers are preserved. Photographs may differ in resolution.
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