Stampatori del sacro a Napoli tra Ottocento e Novecento. Aspetti visivi della comunicazione

Abstract

This article presents the activity of typographers, lithographers and chalcographers who created sacred images on paper in the nineteenth century and in the first half of the twentieth century in Naples. Public and private collections of sacred prints and pictures on paper are analyzed here, along with the indications reported by the Naples trade guides during the period examined. In this way, families of «sacred printers» succeeded in time have been identified. The author focuses on other aspects, such as serial visual communication or related to the skills of the various families of Neapolitan printers. Particular attention is also paid to the figurative details placed in relation to local times and specificities that have contributed to make the visual communication and the diffusion of such images rich in the central and southern part of Italy.

Keywords

• sacred prints
• sacred pictures on paper
• typographies lithographs and calcographs of naples
• visual communication