Gangi's Lame
Zoppo di Gangi is the pseudonym used by two Sicilian painters from Gangi: Gaspare Vazzano and Giuseppe Salerno.
Gaspare Vazzano was born in Gangi in 1562. He frequented Pietro de Bellio's workshop together with Giuseppe Salerno. He then moved to Palermo and worked in the workshop of Giuseppe Alvino known as il Sozzo, a collaboration that lasted several years. Having become a master of the pictorial art, he founded his own workshop in the ancient street of San Domenico. He produced many works throughout Sicily until 1624, the year in which he created the frescoes in the chapel of the Mother Church of Collesano, the artist's last known work.
Giuseppe Salerno was born in Gangi around 1570. He frequented Pietro de Bellio's workshop together with Gaspare Vazzano. It is believed possible that Salerno initially frequented the artistic circles of Palermo, but it was in Gangi that he founded his workshop. His works are scattered throughout Sicily: Palermo, Burgio, Capizzi, Polizzi Generosa and in the abbey of San Martino delle Scale in Monreale, but his masterpiece, the Last Judgment of 1629, is kept in the mother church of Gangi.
