FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF THE PALIO DI SIENA, THE "PALIO" OR "CENCIO" TO THE WINNING CONTRADA WILL BE PAINTED WITH WINE BY THE FLORENTINE ARTIST AND CREATOR OF WINE ART TECHNOLOGY, ELISABETTA ROGAI

For the first time in its history, the "Palio" or prize of the Palio di Siena, one of the most famous historical reenactments in the world (the "cencio" that goes to the winning Contrada on August 16th) will be painted with wine as well as its traditional colors. In 2015, the most fascinating horse race in the world, a medieval joust, commissioned the Florentine artist Elisabetta Rogai to paint the “Palio”. Elisabetta became internationally famous for creating EnoArte @, an innovative painting technique that allows one to paint using red wine instead of colors, in an innovative way.

"Having to meet the different iconographic and color requirements that characterize each edition of the work, wine will be combined”, she said in a press release, “with other materials to follow the details s of the award for the Palio on August 16th. It will complement the dedication to Our Lady of the Assumption with allegorical content that call to mind one of the most typical and universally recognized territorial identities of Siena: food production and the centuries-old relationship between the city and its countryside.
The theme is "Sienna, Land of the World", and the City Council has expressed the desire to celebrate and portray the virtuous and indissoluble relationship between the city and its countryside, which implies the genius loci of Siena and the overall perception of quality of life in the territory”.

This is why the City Council decided to entrust the Palio in honor of Our Lady of the Assumption on August 16, 2015 to Elizabeth Rogai, "whose works reveal the sensitivity typical of the great frescoes of religious inspiration and a female identity loud and proud that evokes the concept of atavistic Mother Earth. Rogai uses innovative colors, made with some products of the earth such as wine, through a process that leads to natural aging of the color and also flour, like the ancient Siena painters used. The silk "drappellone" will be a combination full of meaning between the creativity of the artist and the fruits of the land of Siena. The theme and agenda for the big global event, of which Italy is the star, will be represented in the background”.