Rusulia — artwork #10163 by Igor Scalisi Palminteri · Palermo, Italy

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Rusulia — Street art by Igor Scalisi Palminteri in Palermo

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Igor Scalisi Palminteri

Igor Scalisi Palminteri is an Italian artist born in 1973 in Palermo, Sicily. A graduate of Palermo's Accademia di Belle Arti, he has developed since the 2000s a muralist practice rooted in the Sicilian painterly tradition — baroque sacred painting, popular ex-votos, Mediterranean religious iconography — which he transposes at large scale onto the façades of the city's working-class neighbourhoods…

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Added 19/05/2026

A monumental mural painted in 2024 by Igor Scalisi Palminteri in the Sperone district of Palermo, on the gable end of a building at via Sacco e Vanzetti 48. The composition depicts Santa Rosalia, the patron saint of Palermo — affectionately called Rusulia in Sicilian — crowned with flowers, eyes turned to the sky and the bay of Palermo. The piece dialogues with a second mural, painted on the opposite wall of the same building, depicting a man's arm in a gesture of forgiveness toward the female figure. The work was ranked among the best murals of the world 2024 by Street Art Cities.

The artwork Rusulia is of type graffiti. You can admire it in the city of Palermo in Italy, more precisely here: Via Sacco e Vanzetti 48, quartiere Sperone, Palermo.

This graffiti is also tagged as: hyperreal, portrait, flowers, saint, religious.

Find all artworks by the artists who contributed to its creation by clicking on their name: Igor Scalisi Palminteri

The photo was published on 19-05-2026 by an unknown hunter.

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