The sculptural style of the Nativity we will make is in what is known as the Neapolitan Baroque Crèche . It is a cross between high baroque and renaissance styles of dress, architecture and culture. It is not really relevant to what actual period clothing and culture would likely have been at the time and in the location of the birth of Christ . Further, in keeping with this very popular method of rendering the Nativity,  the overall sand sculpture should be a more "busy" type of design than what is common today. That is a lot going on. A lot of action and elements all crowded together, whereby any single element may almost be lost in the overall scheme. You will notice this in some of the reference art here where there are crowd scenes, and that is the effect we want, on purpose.

Please print out whatever you would like to have, and bring it with you to the job.

 I will not have the reference art available for you in Italy.

CLICK HERE FOR THE REFERENCE ART GALLERY

CLICK HERE FOR SOME SKETCHES OF THE  PROPOSED DESIGNS

This year we are all working on one long rectangular pound up (front view only) It's 19 meters long and 4 meters tall. (the big poundup is done before you get there.) We will do some satellite poundups in round plastic forms at the bottom, in front of the big rectangle.
The poundup is shown here:
Front View    Top View

• Section 1.) The Anunciation - Mark, Lars and Radek
• Section 2.) No Room at the Inn - Damon, Rich and Dan
• Section 3.) the Birth Of Christ - Alexie, Vladimir and Pavel
• Section 4.) (all in  front separate from the base poundup) Shepherds & Sheep -All carvers

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