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title: THE OLD SAW

subject date: 2011-04-07

caption: SACRED AND PROFANE A moment of the ''Sega la Vecchia'', the mid-Lent rite of the peasant world: the old/oak tree lies inanimate on the ground, while the ''sawmen'' prepare to dissect it; the local people watch the drama and become participants in the sacredness of the event. In the staging carried from house to house, the old oak tree is identified and ''cut down'' by two ''sawyers'', but foreign assassins kill it before they can dissect it; at this point her old husband comes looking for her, and out of pity for him everyone works hard to bring her back to life (starting with the old man who pities her by ''embracing'' her with passion). The operation will succeed perfectly: she will come out alive and fruitful amidst joy and dancing, symbolizing the eternal spring rebirth. The allegorical representation of a caricatural nature was particularly practiced in Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna and Umbria. Part of the photographic service documenting the musical anthropology investigation carried out by Diego Carpitella (1924 - 1990) and Tullio Seppilli (1928 - 2017) for the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome. Photography by Ando Gilardi (1921 - 2012) #andogilardi. Italy, 1958.

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Italia

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

instructions: Per utilizzi: Fototeca Gilardi - t. 02 3931 2652

Creation date: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

object name: 65003

priority: 0

multiplying price: 1.00

pricing: default

continent: Europa

image century : XX

image epoch: Neorealismo

licence: RM

subject century: XX

subject epoch: Anni Cinquanta

technique: Fotografia

id: 29516

file name: FSNgilardi_65003.jpg

keywords

SegavecchiaSaw the OldAndo GilardiA. GilardiSeppilli T.Carpitella D.ItalyUmbriapopular traditionsEthnographyLentpost-war periodmusiccultural anthropologySpringcustomRite agreste