{"id":1155,"date":"2005-10-13T09:15:31","date_gmt":"2005-10-13T09:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/dalis-exorcism.html"},"modified":"2005-10-13T09:15:31","modified_gmt":"2005-10-13T09:15:31","slug":"dalis-exorcism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/dalis-exorcism.html","title":{"rendered":"Dali’s exorcism"},"content":{"rendered":"

An odd tale:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ancona, October 12 – An art expert has uncovered a sculpture of Christ on the Cross he claims Salvador Dali made to thank an Italian friar who exorcised him .<\/p>\n

Armando Ginesi found the piece, measuring 60cm by 30cm, among the personal belongings of Gabriele Maria Berardi, a friar who died in 1984, in a storeroom in Rome .<\/p>\n

He has shown the work to two Spanish experts on the Surrealist artist. They agreed that there are "sufficient stylistic reasons" to believe it was made by Dali .<\/p>\n

According to Ginesi, Berardi told friends and relatives he exorcised Dali of a demon in 1947 during a spell in France. At the time Berardi had temporarily been suspended from his Italian religious order – apparently for failing to honour financial commitments. He did a variety of jobs, but continued to perform religious rites, including exorcisms .<\/p>\n

The reported exorcism took place during a period in which Dali had broken away from Surrealism and started producing more realistic works, often with religious imagery <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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