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Large apotropaic copper mask 
Embossed 
Origin: Calabria
Dimensions 43x45.5x7 cm 
Dating: circa 1930

Embossing is a very ancient technique. From Mycenaean art onwards, the technique has not disappeared over time, rather it has been enriched since the Middle Ages, with the creation of objects related to religious worship. This technique allows you to approach the idea of three-dimensionality, as it allows the creation of images in relief.
Apotropaic masks (αποτρεπειν - apotrepein in ancient Greek), that is, those monstrous faces that are hung on the door jambs to ward off the evil eye, are part of the Calabrian culture.
The iconography of the masks is very varied, they are usually more or less frightening anthropomorphic representations, deriving from the Magno - Greeks prototypes: Satyrs and Gorgons in stone or terracotta, which usually adorned the antefixes of Greek and Roman temples. Hostile forces thus found a barrier, and the house was founded as a protected space whose threshold was forbidden to evil.

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Italy - Second half 20th century

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