In Ossuccio, as in many other Sacri Monti, the statues are finished and painted only in the visible parts. As in a theatrical scenography in which the audience can only see the stage (and not the ‘behind the scenes’). What mattered above all was the spectator's point of view: where the eye could not reach, the statues were not finished.
For the artists, modeling and painting the sculptures also in the rear part would have been a wasteful and useless job. In fact, pilgrims could not walk among the statues and saw the scene only f