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| Elena Niccacci receiving Pope John Paul II's blessing at the year 2000 Jubilee celebrations. |
Until recent times the Stations of the Cross in a Catholic church were a total of 14. You may check that in any Italian church upon your visits to our beautiful country.
It was Pope John Paul II who added the 15th Station of the Cross during his papacy (1978-2005). He decided that the 15th station of the cross was Jesus Christ's Resurrection.
Regarding Pope Paul II my memory goes back to the year 2000 when my mother Elena Niccacci received the Pope's blessing along with my family and the Cama artists.
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Modern ceramic stations of the cross
by artist and friend Professor
Claudio Monotti.
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| My brother Andrea Niccacci deliverying the Cama plate to Pope John Paul II in the year 2000. |
Cama's last visit to the Vatican with the workers had been upon the Sistine Chapel's restoration in 1994. In that year we rented a bus and visited the Vatican Museums with all the Cama assistants to introduce them to Michelangelo's and Raffaello's frescoes. These artists inspired the ceramic art in Deruta highly. It was important for us that they were aware of our art heritage by admiring these artists' works in person.
Ceramic artists in Deruta still use the same art techniques that were in use in the Renaissance period. Drawings were first made on cardboards and then transferred to the walls by using tracing papers. Close up photos of the Sistine Chapel's restored works of art showed us the tracing papers dots underlying the drawings' outlines. Such large dots. Seeing them was very impressive as artists used nails because of the frescoes' dimensions. In Deruta we are used to needles!
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