The topic of the text is a competition of sacred art bandit in Trieste (1946) for
paintings and sculpures representing San Giusto, the patron saint of the city. In
the section of the painting, fourteen works were selected. Among them, there
is also the picture of Carlo Sbisà. The artists represented the iconography of San
Giusto in very different way. Sbisà, for example, was inspired by the famous San
Sebastiano by Antonello da Messina. The text also presents another painting of
Carlo Sbisà, Le primule (Trieste, Palazzo della Prefettura), hitherto known only
through literary sources.
