The Holy Family in Nalda (in pdf)

The Holy Family is a classic theme in Western artistic imagery of all times and in all supports, from clay to marble and from pencil to brush. .

Nalda, a large technical porcelain company located in Almácera, near Valencia, founded in 1913, began in 1947 to produce splendid works of art in porcelain. After a first stage of more classical styles, the Nalda sculptors, many of them still unidentified, launched into aesthetic experimentation, always supported by their parent company.

The result of this are, among many others, a set of figures that collect that secular tradition of representing the Holy Family. or the Virgin and Child, which Nalda's sculptors render in porcelain, applying the spectacular techniques developed by the company's engineers and chemists to the fruit of their most brilliant imagination.

Trying to reconstruct the artistic environment in which these works were born, the three works that have come down to us so far are presented and, through photographs of them, the aim is to lead the reader to the aesthetic enjoyment with which, without a doubt, they were produced.

Text and images copyright: Antonio Ten Ros. All rights reserved.

DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.25388.44165

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