Deruta traditons: The Confraternity of the Rosary

The Virgin of the Rosary

In Deruta in the past Century there was a Confraternity of the Rosary to which the "Derutesi" were very devoted. The only Chapel of the Church of Saint Francis in Deruta is dedicated to the original prayer of the Rosary.

I am showing here the most popular image of this Virgin, which is most familiar to us.
From the iconographic point of view, we may notice the same structure of the Siena pattern: here we have two Saints adoring the Virgin and Child, in the Siena pattern two deer on each side of the fount.

It is interesting to know that this Confraternity was first established in the Renaissance, exactly in 1470 and approved by  Pope Sixtus IV in 1479.

The Virgin of the Rosary is originally from Pompei. The Feast of the "Madonna del Rosario" is on October 7th.

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Along with the rebirth of the Ceramics Art at the end of the 19th Century, the Derutesi brought back  religious traditions originally from the Renaissance, the age of refungence of their artistry.