A large blue portrait of a woman, painted by Leticia Mandragora in 2020, dominates the center square in the small Italian town of Stornara.

Over the past few years, the organization Stornara Life, has been responsible for bringing artists to the town to paint murals. There are now more than 100 of them.  Mandragora’s blue portraits are now on three of the walls in this town including this young girl on the side of a residential building.  It was painted in 2023 as part of the annual Stramurales festival.

“Reginae Mater Natura” from August 2021

He is San Rocco, a 14th century pilgrim who was known for his ability to cure those with the plague…before he himself died of it