The Triumphal Wagon
Documents show that the first float was built in 1690 by the carpenter Leonardo Traietto, who built the frame, while Don Leonardo Angelino probably painted the decorations.
Early on, the processional cart of the Bruna must have been simple, of painted paper , velvet and with few decorations.
But in few years, the echo of the festivity grew very much in all the surrounding territory Matera, of equal step with the donations to the protecting Mother Mary one that allowed, from year to year, to improve this festivity.
Moreover, borned in Matera various schools in order to supply the just skills to the job of the cartapesta, is not wrong therefore to consider the Wagon one an art opera.
Specify that in the war periods or for other causes, there are exceptions in the completion or the realization of the Wagon. Please find enclosed ul document in pdf with the directory of the authors of the Carro from 1690 to 1990 Authors (pdf).
