Nobody does religious icons like the Catholics in Italy. OK, maybe Hindus in India bring it. Iconography is all over Naples, in churches, street side, alley shrines, in glass cases, everywhere. Don't even throw in the biggest saint, football star Maradona.
Everybody puts their favorite saint in a box. Here's Santi Domenico Soriano e Nunzio Sulprizio.
The Virgin Mary, getting dramatic. Upward lighting and plastic flowers do the trick. The handmade, casual shrines tucked into walls along streets are great. They are always a hodgepodge installation, a mix of icons, candles, offerings, and pics of those lost and remembered.
Another box, another saint. Looks tough. And cramped.
Jesus in a box details, gotta get the stigmata right.
No place is inappropriate for a shrine. Here is a little one, plopped on the retaining rocks in the harbor.
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