In Art Circles,

the word masterpiece is often banded around, 

photographs and video Museo San Severo, on some pieces of art it is not deserved at all, but here is what I would call a real masterpiece, it is Queirolo’s masterwork is Disillusion, dedicated by Raimondo di Sangro to his father Antonio, Duke of Torremaggiore,

the piece took 7 years to complete,

although he had apprentices, he completed all of the work himself,

the sculptor had to burnish the sculpture with pumice personally, as the craftsmen of the period, though specialised in the burnishing phase, refused to touch the delicate net lest it should shatter into fragments in their hands,

imagine all of this made from one solid block of marble, just one mistake, slip of a hammer or chisel, well it does not bare thinking about!

biblical passages engraved in the open book, appears to be a clear reference to Masonic initiation, where those being initiated would enter wearing a ritual blindfold to open their eyes to the new light of the Truth kept by the Lodge,

now this is what I call a masterpiece.