Ciro José Sanzari - Scale model - Composite, Copper, Enamel, Gilt, Glass, Iron (cast/wrought), Paper, Resin/Polyester, Wood

The work exhibited for a period in the Gattopardo museum, the prestigious context of the literary award ceremony of the same name, will be accompanied by a certificate of exhibition in the place mentioned in addition to the copyright document.

Miniature made entirely by hand following a metric ratio of dimensions equivalent to the 1: 500 scale.
Made with mixed techniques and materials but the most prevalent is vegetable cardboard compressed with colored pigments.
It is not the result of a purely artistic interpretation but shows one of some of the probable forms and appearances that this emblematic historical structure could have shown in Roman times.
Miniatures of this kind are the result of an artistic skill which, due to the advent of computerized reconstructions and 3D printing, is on the verge of extinction - not surprisingly given the complexity and waste of time and energy that the artist must necessarily be employed to achieve it in a refined way.
Its value therefore not only takes into account the rarity of these artefacts but also the quotas that are established for this type of miniatures by the Wonderland International Miniature Museum in Germany.
The work is exhibited in the Gattopardo museum complex (Santa Margherita di Belìce, AG - Italy) , in the Museum of Memory, a choice which is linked to the re-examination of the history of some ancestors of the writer and Prince Tomasi di Lampedusa (he wrote the novel Il Leopard) . . . "they too were enchanted" by the charm of Jerusalem due to the emblematic Temple that stood there, and its social, political and religious implications, they participated in the crusades that would lead Angerio Filangeri (ancestor of the writer of the maternal branch) to become governor of Jerusalem for a short time.

SHORT DEEPER RETROSPECTIVES
*The rebuilt temple of Jerusalem represents today one of the greatest examples - at least for what little remains - of the refined and advanced Roman engineering and architecture which in the East reached gigantic proportions: even today we wonder how many parts of this structure were could have achieved at that time.
*following a more fierce rebellion on the part of the Jews, the Romans destroyed the Temple by setting it on fire and plundering its abundant gold which was partly used to finance the construction of the Colosseum in ROME. . . we were at the sunset and dawn of two eras which will strongly influence the fate of the Western world and beyond.
The destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem by the Romans can be compared to a hypothetical destruction of the Vatican by the UN - to get an idea of what its social, political and cultural impact was.
*The rebuilt Temple of Jerusalem is mentioned many times in Christ's predictions [or rather "prophecies"] about the end of the evil world system. Christ closely links the events that will happen to the Temple and what it represented with the events futures that would occur globally: events that would constitute the warning signs of God's imminent direct intervention to re-establish the New World Order and eternal life.