13th International Conference on Fracture June 16–21, 2013, Beijing, China -2- painter sculptor and architect Gaudenzio Ferrari, the scenes inside the chapels are represented in an ingenious and innovative merging of painting and sculpture, with a strong sense of reality, so that the devotee could feel himself deeply involved by the depicted scene of the Christ’s Life and almost part of it (Fig.3). The work of Gaudenzio Ferrari will be taken as a model in the construction of many other Sacred Mountains. In the era of the Counter-reformation, the Sacred Mountain of Varallo assumed the appearance of a path, real but at the same time mystical, that the pilgrim completes following the telling of the story of Christ's Life. The Sacred Mountain is composed of a basilica and forty-five frescoed chapels, populated by over eight hundred statues. For the completion of this extraordinary monument worked important Piedmontese artists, among which there are Bernardino Lanino, Tanzio da Varallo, brothers D'Enrico, Morazzone, and Dionigi Bussola [1]. Fig.1. The Sacred Mountain of Varallo, Italy. Overview. Fig.2. The Sacred Mountain of Varallo. The Square of Tribunals.
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