It’s our the most expensive bottle of oil in the world, Olio Piano Luxury line has the goal to give the customer a real piece of art, unique and unrepeatable. Commissioned to the artist Silvestro Regina, who also can embellish the bottle with diamonds.
Food is culture. It can identify a nation as the language and customs do, it is often part of the nation’s traditions. Culture doesn’t only include food but also politics, science, and above all artistic activities that determine the life of a certain society in a certain historic moment.
The artist
Silvestro Regina, born in San Severo, in 1958, painter and goldsmith sculptor, at the age of 15 he does his first personal exhibition, at the Teatro Verdi in San Severo, where the paintings and the drawings caught the attentions of the public and of the critics.
Crucial for his formation was the professor Sergio Benvenuti, sculptor of international fame, art master and life master, who brought him from sculpture and micro-sculpture to the cut and incision of precious stones in which he became an undisputed master.
The collaboration and the contamination from other art forms are various as it has been for the theatre with the realization of the play “Viaggiando Unitamente Separati” by Emanuele Italia, in the journalism field where he worked with the “Picchio Rosso”, “Area”, “Attacco” and other journals as a cartoonist and editor, other than being creator and green designer of parks, gardens and sustainable urban furniture.
Various awards and reviews brought him to the attention of the biggest national networks: some examples are Rai, La Repubblica, Il Corriere, La Gazzetta Del Mezzogiorno and more.
A great influence for him were Cesare Padovani and Alfredo Bortoluzzi. Among his many works we remember “I Murales” in Peschici, graphic translation of “La notte della Taranta” made in 1993, in occasion of its first stage.
To be mentioned the monstrance Ostia Magna, created for the Congresso Eucaristico of the 2004, work kept at the Museo Diocesiano of San Severo and judged by leading critics as one of the most modern works of art dedicated to the cult.
Presentation of the most expensive oil bottle in the world
With this bottle the artist wants to narrate the territory (Local) and in particular the Peranzana.
The latter was introduced to Daunia by Raimondo di Sangro, Prince of San Severo and Duke of Torremaggiore, in the mid-1700s.
Noted scientist and member of the Accademia della Crusca, alchemist, inventor, esotericist, eclectic character who left wonders in the San Severo Chapel in Naples, in which statues of rare beauty can be admired, including the best known: the Veiled Christ and Pudicizia (also known as Veiled Pudicizia).
Depicted in diamond-pointed graphic engraving with pure silver leaf, is dedicated to Cecilia Gaetani dell’Aquila d’Aragona, mother of Raimondo di Sangro, who died in December 1710, less than a year after the birth of her son.
The statue was made by Antonio Corradini, already the author of the Decoro, the monument to the sixth prince of Sansevero Paolo di Sangro, and the clay sketches of many of the other works, whose iconography he had studied with Prince Raimondo.
The serpent thus was born the symbol of medicine.
He discovered the origin of the image that identifies the art of healing: it is related to Asclepius, son of Apollo.
Why is the symbol of medicine a snake twisted around a stick?
The answer lies in ancient fables. And it calls into question the deity who for the Greeks was the patron of the art of medicine: Asclepius. A hymn attributed to Homer invoked him as “joy to mankind the one who knows the incantations to avert horrendous suffering.”
Still the god who restored health to men had a most unfortunate personal fate. Already his birth stands under an ominous sign: Asclepius was the son of Apollo and a mortal, Coronides. The latter dared to betray the love of the god, moreover by uniting herself with an ordinary man.
It was the raven, according to the myth, who ratted him out, telling Apollo everything, who, seized with rage, turned the raven, which was previously white, into black.
Then he killed Coronides, and tore from her womb the son with whom she was pregnant: Asclepius, precisely, who was entrusted to the wise centaur Chiron. From the centaur he learned the medical arts. But he went too far in his love for humanity. Asclepius began not only to heal but also to resurrect men.
Among them was Hippolytus, that unhappy hero put to death by his father Theseus because he was unjustly accused of trying to seduce his stepmother Phaedra.
But what about the serpent?
One myth says that, one day, a snake wrapped itself around Asclepius’ staff: the god, immediately, killed it. Another snake came, however, carrying in its mouth a medicinal herb that healed the slain animal. Thus, Asclepius learned to raise the dead, and the staff with the snake became his symbol.
However Zeus, the father of the gods, could not tolerate these resurrections: they violated the rules of the cosmos and defied the laws of fate, therefore, he incinerated Asclepius with his thunderbolt.
Apollo, in revenge, in turn killed the Cyclopes, the one-eyed giants who, in their caves, forged Zeus’ thunderbolts.
Technique performed
Diamond-tipped glass engraving done completely freehand without the use of pantographs. Applications of 24-karat gold leaf and agate stone, with mixing for professional gilding. The idea of making such a precious and exclusive bottle of extra virgin olive oil is dictated by the excellence and rarity of the contents.
Below are the pictures of the most expensive oil bottle in the world:
- Snake
- Peranzana tree
- La Pudicizia
